Microsoft Office News & Articles

Even if you aren’t an Apple fan, you have to admit the iPad is lust-worthy. Since its introduction in early 2010, consumer adoption of the device has exploded. Now, iPad use is growing in the enterprise. Apple’s iPad is lightweight, easy to use and snappy, making it almost the perfect enterprise mobility device -- almost.

The folks at Cisco want to make working together a little easier. The company announced that it is acquiring two-year old startup Versly, which provides a tool that allows users to collaborate inside of Microsoft Office.

Microsoft (news, site) has added real-time multi-user collaboration to the list of features in its Office Web applications, reducing the feature gap between its cloud-based productivity suite and competitor Google Docs.

Microsoft SharePoint (news, site) enables collaboration and document sharing within teams. However, bigger organizations that have multiple teams within might experience islands of information as each team has its own unlinked site. Interact's (news, site) SharePoint Connector tool enables document search across multiple SharePoint sites for better knowledge management within the corporate intranet.

RIM's (news, site) new PlayBook is getting a rough ride at its launch, but has software backing from IBM to appeal to those vital enterprise users.

This week there has been more in the office web productivity space, with upgrades from both Google and mobile apps developer Equitrac. The depth of SharePoint 2010 penetration has been measured as well as its implications for document storage, while SpringCM added document workflow functionality in its latest release.

After a 2010 buoyed by Windows 7, Microsoft (news, site) is now relying on Office for the lion's share of its profits.

The intranets of yesterday were primarily used for document storage and/or simple news. But the next generation of intranets can be much more, especially when we start integrating web applications. Take SharePoint and Office Web Apps for example.

Consider the dinner table this holiday season. Will you be eating and enjoying time with family and friends, or checking your e-mail with your mobile device? A couple of recent surveys have revealed some uncomfortable facts about American behavior with regards to the mighty inbox, as well as the mobile trends to look for in 2011. 

Only a matter of weeks after it released v4.2 of its server, MarkLogic (news, site) has released a set of Microsoft toolkits that enable users to access content that has been created in Office and reuse it in other documents from within Microsoft Office.

From 2011, collaboration firm eXpresso (news, site) will no longer offer its service directly, instead teaming up with IBM and others.

e-Spirit (news, site) released a new version of the FirstSpirit Web CMS in the spirit of better communication with office applications.

This week, IBM announced that it will be offering cloud-based business process management that will be able to manage everything from expenses to document approvals without any on-premise software. We also took at look at what SharePoint 2010 has to offer in records management, while Office 2010 beta gets ready to wrap-up.

 Intrexx (news, site) from United Planet aims for the mobile admin with the latest features in its enterprise portal with both compact and professional versions available.

Central Desktop (news, site) offers a helping bridge between the tricky-to-manage islands of your MS Office docs and cloud data.