by Larry Cannell | November 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
Next week Microsoft will be unveiling details behind SharePoint 2013. My primary interest is in improvements in SharePoint’s social software capabilities. However, Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Yammer leaves questions about the future of SharePoint-provided social software capabilities, as well as the future of Yammer. In addition, the beta release of SharePoint 2013 and the Office [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: microsoft, sharepoint, yammer
by Larry Cannell | November 9, 2012 | 6 Comments
Next week I will be at the SharePoint Conference, where Microsoft is introducing SharePoint 2013. While a big question on many people’s minds is Microsoft’s plans for integrating SharePoint and Yammer, we will also get a closer look at other social software improvements. The acquisition of Yammer and the changes in SharePoint 2013 show that [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: microsoft, office, sharepoint, social software, yammer
by Larry Cannell | February 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Yesterday Google accused Microsoft of using the Bing Toolbar (an Internet Explorer add-on packaged with Windows Live Essentials) to collect information about what people are searching for and the pages they most commonly pick in the search results. This information is sent to Microsoft where it influences Bing search results. More details are available in [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: google, microsoft, privacy, search
by Larry Cannell | October 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Microsoft will be adding multiple levels of enterprise packages to their BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services) SaaS offering and is also renaming the service to “Office 365.” All of these packages will be based on the latest releases of SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync (formerly called Office Communications Server). Microsoft Corp. today announced Microsoft Office 365, [...]
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Category: Cloud Tags: exchange, lync, microsoft, office, saas, sharepoint
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 [...]
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Category: Cloud Tags: blogs, microsoft, open source, wordpress
