Microsoft News & Articles

 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. 

Yesterday we took a look at the first part of the Forrester Wave: Cloud Strategies Of Online Collaboration Software Vendors, Q3 2012, report where we saw that many enterprises are concerned about the feasibility of using online collaboration services, Today, we will take a brief look at the companies and products that made it into the this Wave.

 Outside of the Apple/Samsung legal spat, both companies are readying a series of new products, with Samsung lining up a successor to its unique stylus-packing super-phone or micro-tablet, the Galaxy Note that will appear ahead of Apple's next line-up. 

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile has generated a lot of attention this week, not all of it good. The company invited the press to an event it's holding jointly with Nokia on September 5 -- a week before Apple’s rumored September 12 event -- but provided few details about the content. The buzz Microsoft tried to create was almost immediately overshadowed by a bug that stopped all publishing and downloading of apps from the Windows Phone Marketplace.

 Nokia and Microsoft will bring all their guns to bear on the smartphone market at a special event in New York, with what is effectively their last chance for success in the smartphone market.

Microsoft has revamped SkyDrive with a new UI and updated the website's design in preparation for the Windows 8 launch, with a SkyDrive Android App launch imminent. 

I always like to put events into a solid sports analogy and SharePoint lends itself to this in a unique way. SharePoint is somewhat akin to the New York Yankee teams of the past couple decades: this product has been a consistent leader, though it has had some ups and downs in the enterprise collaboration space, and continues to hold its place in the echelon of enterprise productivity tools that will continue to lead well into the next many “seasons” to come.

Yammer is now officially part of Microsoft's Office Division, and the enterprise social network has released a major new update to the homepage and navigation features.

Samsung continues to lead Apple in worldwide sales of mobile phones. That’s one of the findings in the new Gartner report, which covers the second quarter and was released Tuesday.

With SharePoint, it really can be 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 all at the same time.

Over the years I’ve been faced with some very challenging intranet projects but none of them come close to the challenges of upgrading software on the office computer. 

Google, when all is said and done, is a search provider. This week it has announced three enhancements to its search engine. The upgrades include voice search for iPad/iPhone, Gmail in search and improvements to Knowledge Graph, the database it introduced in May.

Earlier in the week, in new research published by AIIM, we saw that while there has been widespread deployment of SharePoint, enterprises are far from completely happy with it. In this final look at the research we will see what the main issues are and how enterprises intend to deal with them going forward.

Windows Phone developers now have a new online home, courtesy of Microsoft. The technology giant has unveiled the Windows Phone Dev Center, which it calls an evolution of the retired App Hub Developer Portal.

While recent research by AIIM indicates that at least 70% of organizations have deployed SharePoint in some shape or form over the past year, the way it is being used and the reasons it is being deployed in the first instance, are as many as there are enterprises using it.