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Microsoft Leaves Ballmer Bleeding as It Moves On
If Steve Ballmer’s decision to step down from the board of Microsoft was sudden, it wasn’t a surprise. Once Satya Nadella stepped in as CEO and started changing Microsoft from a devices and services company to one focused on productivity and platforms, Ballmer had to go.
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Samsung Pushes Open IoT with SmartThings Buy
Samsung has just made a play for a bigger stake in the Internet of Things. It plans to buy SmartThings’ open platform for monitoring, controlling and automating homes from a single device.
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Microsoft Matches Google By Upgrading Office for iPad
Microsoft Office is part of the iPad arsenal and 35 million users have downloaded since it was launched in March. Now Microsoft has issued several updates, which it describes as the features users request most often.
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Mac News: OneNote Upgraded, But What About Office?
Microsoft has just announced major upgrades for OneNote for Mac and iOS. They're interesting upgrades and point to a future where Microsoft works on cross-platform development, offering everyone access to everything. It’s a great vision. And while Microsoft is making progress, it is still far from reality.
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Google Smacks MS Office With Better Docs Collaboration
Google is making it even easier to move from Microsoft Office to Google Docs. At last month’s Google I/O conference, Google gave Office users the ability to edit documents in Docs, which was one of the sticking points for those considering a jump to Google.
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Microsoft Tightens the Reins on Office 365
Companies are still signing up for Yammer — despite the fact that user adoption remains a problem. In fact, according to Yammer co-founder David Sacks, the British grocery retailing giant Tesco has just inked a 250, 000 seat deal with Yammer.
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Here's Who Made Gartner's MQ for Business Analytics Services
The development of decision making and management capabilities across the enterprise has become critically important, largely because enterprises are transforming from process driven to information driven.
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The Problem With Yammer? People Don't Use It
Yammer is being promoted as the new social layer of SharePoint. But Microsoft is also tying it tightly into Office 365. In the past two weeks, this has resulted in the packaging of Yammer with Office 365 small business plans, while the price of Office 365 is also about to
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Have You Soured on Mobile CRM? #salesvelocity2014
Want to make more sales, see more sales activity across your enterprise or close more deals? Want to do it quickly and want to do it on the road? Selligy, a mobile customer relationship management (CRM) vendor, claims it is making it easier than ever by adding advanced revenue and
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Microsoft Makes It Easier to Move to the Cloud #WPC14
Much of what's going to be announced this week at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington, DC, is already known.
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TinderBox Extends Dynamics CRM With Sales Automation
Think you’re missing something in Microsoft Dynamics CRM? TinderBox says you are. In fact, according to TinderBox, Dynamics CRM users may have a lot of technology to provide customer insights and engagement, but its sales automation processes are just not up to scratch.
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Microsoft Pushes Yammer into SMBs
Microsoft is pushing Yammer ... again. The focus now is on small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Microsoft underlined its enterprise ambitions for Yammer in November by making it available with all Office 365 enterprise plans. Now it's also added Yammer to Office 365 Midsize Business and Office 365 Education plans.
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China Leads the World on the Internet of Things
While US and European machine-to-machine (M2M) technology developers are still banging their collective heads on the wall trying to work out what the Internet of Things (IoT) will be like, who will be developing it and where it will emerge, China is busy forging ahead.
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Huddle Scores with Williams Lea
Huddle earned an enterprise win for its cloud-based collaboration and content management software. It announced today that Williams Lea, which provides specialized business process outsourcing solutions, added Huddle to its suite of online tools for internal and external collaboration.
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