Microsoft News & Articles

This week, two months after unveiling the Preview of Office 2013, Microsoft has finally announced how much it will cost, KnowledgeTree takes a look at email as a collaboration tool, Alfresco releases a new syncing application, and M-Files tells us more about M-File 9.0.

Kentico has released version 7 of its ASP.NET based Web CMS. For those focused on the mobile customer experience, you'll be happy.

Microsoft is releasing Visual Studio 2012, the latest iteration of its Visual Studio developer tool suite. The IT giant says new features of the latest edition are designed to help developers “turn ideas into applications fast.”

Microsoft's WebMatrix 2  web developer toolkit is now free to download in its final version, and the release includes support for Node.js templating as well as with ASP.NET and PHP.

Bing Ads. That’s the new name for Microsoft’s adCenter, and it will be used to self-manage search ads on the new Yahoo! Bing Network.

HP has finally announced a boss for Autonomy as it struggles to make money from the acquisition. As of next Monday (September 17), Robert Youngjohns, currently head of Microsoft sales in North America is to take over.

If you thought Microsoft was just going to sit around and hope people would migrate to Office 365 all by themselves, think again. To help move Lotus Notes/Domino users across to Office 365 it has licensed Binary Tree’s (BT) migration solution. Let's have a look.

 Oh dear, Nokia couldn't keep a lid on this one, possibly because it is just too bright. Anyway, here's the Lumia 920, the new range-leading device that features a PureView camera, wireless charging and beefed-up specs to bring Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 to the masses. 

Shopping around for an online collaboration suite just got a little more interesting as startup ClearSlide has raised nearly US$ 30 million in new funding.

This week, even with Labor Day weekend approaching there are a few notable releases. Vizit has announced the release of v5 that enhances document management in SharePoint, Microsoft has announced Office 2013 On Demand, M-Files announced SkyDrive support for v9.0 and Parascript upgrades FormXtra toolkit.

In a clear sign that Microsoft is throwing everything behind the Office 2013 release, it has just announced that subscribers to the online version will be able to access single instances of Office applications on any computer.

When it comes to information worker tools, it’s rare I hear someone from IT say “we walk a day in the life of our end users and start backwards from there.” Seldom do they ask “how do our people want to work?” or “what tools and information do our workers need exactly?”    

Start off Summer with a new gig -- we've got a shopping list of hot jobs for you to browse. Our featured jobs list is a great collection of opportunities spanning specialties and continents. Here's who's hiring this week (and if you're hiring, post your open jobs here).

 How many times have you typed a question into a search engine and received all kinds of inappropriate results? Microsoft's Bing might help answer your query faster by tying into the popular Q&A social site to provide more relevant answers and information. 

 If you never thought you'd see MS Office running properly on an iPad, you were wrong. Microsoft has announced updates to its Web Office apps, bringing bigger buttons and full touch functionality to Apple's iPad and upcoming Windows 8 tablets.