Microsoft News & Articles

Things are heating up in the document management space. This week, we see Nuxeo setting up its stall for the coming year, vendors and enterprises are gearing up for the release of SharePoint 2013, Micro Strategies connects SharePoint and IBM Connections and Atiz introduces a mobile scanner.

 While HP's Pavilion Chromebook is effectively one of Google's low-spec PCs cased in the usual Pavilion stylings, the message to Microsoft is clear, 'You aren't the only game in town.' And with Chromebook sales on the rise, it could be a smart move as Google's OS gains momentum.

In the past week, Microsoft released a new version of Office 2013 and a new home subscription version of Office 365. The next big release will be the general release of SharePoint 2013, even if we still don’t know when. To help companies that are planning to move to SharePoint 2013, or migrate from an earlier version, Dell has put together a few tasks that should get you into the right planning mode.

It’s only three days since Microsoft launched Office 2013 and the online version through Office 365, but already it has started building it out. To be more precise, it is Bing that is building out Office 365 with the addition of five new apps that can be used with the new Office 365 Home Premium.

Although Google has agreed to extend Google Sync support for new Windows Phone connections until July 31 of this year, Microsoft is not wasting any time in ensuring Windows Phone users can connect to Google services after that date.

Microsoft has announced the release of Office 365 Home Premium, the consumer based cloud alternative to the Microsoft Office suite.

 Having been available through beta, enterprise releases and free upgrade offers, the latest collection of Office 2013 products from Microsoft becomes generally available this week with a launch party announced for Tuesday in New York. 

With anecdotal evidence suggesting that many potential Surface buyers were avoiding the Surface RT version and holding out for Surface Windows 8 Pro, all that was missing was the release date. This week, Microsoft confirmed that the professional version will finally be released on February 9.

Anyone hoping that the information supplied at Microsoft’s Q2 earnings announcement last night would answer some of the questions hanging over the Redwood giant are going to be disappointed.

More cloud-goodness from Microsoft, which has just announced the immediate and general availability of Windows Azure Media Services. Enterprises that don’t have the resources, or even the will to build on-demand video without having to invest in, or extend their existing infrastructure can now turn to this service to do the heavy work.

Microsoft bought out the enterprise social network company Yammer, for a reported US$ 1.2 billion last June, announcing plans to add Yammer to its SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 application. It has also been selling Yammer packages at such a low price point that only massive sales will recoup its investment.

Microsoft clearly thinks that they are on a big business software winner by acquiring Yammer.

It's Friday, we've got a list, let's do this. Fortune magazine dropped its list of the 100 best places to work, and since none of us work at these companies, let's pick the list apart to see how terrible it is, or not, to work for these companies. 

It’s still not clear when exactly Microsoft is going to release Office 2013, but at this point the leaks are so prolific, it may as well make a clean breast of it. In the last few days alone, more about the pricing has been ‘leaked’, and now word that some home users will also be able to get their hands on the new suite.

Looking to boost the versatility of its growing Cloud OS offering is Microsoft, with a new plan for cloud-based management of devices using various operating systems -- iOS and Android as well as Windows 8, RT and Phone 8. 

RIM, makers of the once dominant BlackBerry smartphone ecosystem, is ready to launch its new device lineup, and it looks like it will at least have some apps to show off when it does. Unfortunately for RIM, it won't be enough. There's always a bit of excitement over a new smartphone, and because RIM has such an extensive smartphone history, it's for sure the case with the BlackBerry 10 imminent launch.