Craig Roth

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A Mobility Extravaganza at Catalyst San Diego

by Craig Roth  |  May 14, 2013  |  Submit a Comment

We have two tracks on mobile at Catalyst this year depending on your role and the stage of your organization in mobile planning.  Both tracks run for the duration of the conference. One of the tracks is "Making Mobile Work".  This track addresses fundamental mobile infrastructure projects that I know you’re working on today, including: [...]

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Waiting for Productivity from “Productivity Tools”

by Craig Roth  |  January 31, 2013  |  Comments Off

While our fonts and templates may look nicer than they did ten or twenty years ago, do we really feel more productive in business terms?  Microsoft certainly hopes so, as they released Office 365 Home Premium on Tuesday (the consumer version), but I’m not so sure. My group here in Gartner for Technical Professionals covers [...]

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The End of Software in Boxes?

by Craig Roth  |  August 8, 2012  |  Comments Off

The first software I ever bought was in plastic pouches hanging on pegboard hooks.  This was around 1982 and Apple ][ software usually had a full color cover placed at the front of the pouch, the 5.25 inch floppy behind it, and maybe a few printed pages folded up behind it as an instruction manual.  [...]

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Catalyst 2012 Virtual Track for SharePoint, Collaboration, or Intranets

by Craig Roth  |  July 20, 2012  |  Comments Off

I’m looking forward to our Catalyst conference in San Diego and I know our clients and other attendees are too.  Some who own SharePoint or other collaborative systems have asked what they should see at the conference, so I’ve curated an informal virtual track for attendees interested in SharePoint, collaboration, or intranets. For SharePoint attendees, [...]

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What I’d Like to See in the Office 15 Technical Preview

by Craig Roth  |  January 30, 2012  |  Comments Off

Many information workers have Office intertwined in their daily work lives and many will get new versions from their IT departments automatically at some point without personally having to pay for it, so a new version of Office can feel like waiting to see what goodies Santa brought you this year.  Well, the wait will [...]

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SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 Officially Launch

by Craig Roth  |  May 14, 2010  |  Comments Off

The U.S. SharePoint launch was held yesterday morning at Saturday Night Live’s studio at 30 Rock, NY, NY. It was an appropriate location as they put on a good show that was webcast as it happened to many more locations. I guess it was more like Tuesday Morning Live. We have a quite a few [...]

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