by Larry Cannell | September 27, 2010 | Comments Off
Congratulations to Automattic (the company behind WordPress). Microsoft chose not to compete with WordPress to win an unwinnable war for Internet blog platform supremacy. Instead, Microsoft gave in and it looks like they are trying to leverage WordPress’ popularity to improve the visibility of other Windows Live properties. It is interesting to note that WordPress.com [...]
Comments Off
Category: Cloud Tags: blogs, microsoft, open source, wordpress
by Larry Cannell | September 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
In a previous post I noted that SharePoint and Office 2010 are more integrated than ever before. However, this integrated experience is not extended to Windows. But this begs the question: how could Windows integrate better with SharePoint? Windows 7′s federated search is a good example of how I would like to see any future [...]
Category: Windows 7 Tags: cmis, sharepoint, Windows 7
by Larry Cannell | September 23, 2010 | Comments Off
We’ve previously discussed how SharePoint and Office 2010 can integrate on many levels. However, while this may benefit Office users it does little to address the needs of a broader audience Microsoft serves: Windows users. For review, Office/SharePoint 2010 work together like no previous Office/SharePoint releases: Office has become a content management front-end for SharePoint. [...]
Comments Off
Category: Windows 7 Tags: office, sharepoint, windows
by Larry Cannell | September 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Enterprises upgrading to SharePoint 2010 and using Windows 7 for their desktop operating system should look into the federated search capabilities provided by these products. In short, Windows 7 provides the ability for someone to easily move between searching their desktop and SharePoint-based content, reducing the need to switch between windows (such as a Windows [...]
Comments Off
Category: Uncategorized Tags: opensearch, search, sharepoint, Windows 7
