Microsoft News & Articles

Many organizations are starting to consider moving their applications to a cloud platform. For those interested in how to work in the Windows Azure cloud using web content management platform Sitecore, here's a look.

With the general release of Office 365 expected less than a week away, cloud-based enterprise collaboration is about to go mainstream. While there has been a good deal of talk about Office 365 -- probably because everyone likes to talk about Microsoft -- others have been developing their collaboration abilities too, and with the announcement that Box (news, site ) and Google Docs are providing deep integration, another major challenge to Office 365 is now available.

Seems likes like there’s nothing Google won’t do to spoil the Office party. With a major announcement due next week on Office 365 where Steve Ballmer "will share the news," Google already this week has announced integration with Box, and now has made it easier to use Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office.

This week, with some of the dust beginning to settle on Oracle’s OpenOffice decision, Google is backing LibreOffice with advice and funding, SharePoint seems to be gaining ground in records management, Nuance closes the Equitrac deal, we took a look at document management on-premise or as an SaaS and Office 365 may be on the way.

MIcrosoft (news, site) clearly has major plans for Windows 8, and Hyper-V could see a big shakeup in how businesses and users run legacy and alternate systems.

Microsoft (news, site) has been given regulatory approval to buy Skype, clearing the way for the $8.5 million deal.

Just a final word about tagging in SharePoint 2010, which we looked at earlier this month in relation to planning and implementing a strategy. The word comes from SharePoint web part specialist VirtoSoftware (news, site), which has released a tagging tool for SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft (news, site) is officially bringing its Xbox Kinect movement tracker/camera system to PCs, where it could soon watch what we browse and how we interact with the Web.

It's easy to assume that the bigger a community is the better off, but this week we took a look at why keeping the guest list VIP-only might be a better idea. Meanwhile, Microsoft celebrated its one year anniversary of the Office2010 release with a big "I told you so" and to the surprise of no one, a handful of companies piled on some more social features. 

Normally, we wouldn’t pay much attention to birthdays, because that’s the way we are. However, there was such a frisson of excitement around the release of Office2010 last year, and because Microsoft says it is the bestselling version of Office it has ever made, let's have a look at what Microsoft is saying one year later.

Recently, we took a look at the importance of defining developing a metadata strategy for SharePoint, predicated on the basis that an enterprise has already made a decision on how and what content will be taken into its environment. But what about the step before that? How are you going to get that content in the first place, and how will you manage the storage of business critical information?

This week, only a couple of weeks after upgrading its document management software, Nuxeo offers digital signatures, LibreOffice schedules an enterprise release for August, Google Docs outlines medium terms projects, PSIGEN offers more for SharePoint and Primadesk provides document search wherever your documents are stored.

In a move that will surprise few folks, Apple (news, site) and Nokia have settled out of court over their ITC patent-flinging argument, with Nokia winning license payments from Apple.

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 The next pretender to the iPad throne launches in a few weeks. Will HP's (news, site) TouchPad device fare better than any of the others? A series of videos is out to explain what makes it different.