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March 28, 2012 - Microsoft Shares Visual Studio 11 Ultimate Road Map
Microsoft shared news on the future of its Visual Studio tools and also announced a new build service for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) at conferences in Las Vegas. Read more
March 28, 2012 - Is your social SharePoint strategy working?
Is your strategy for implementing social networking features in your enterprise working? Do you even have a strategy? Do you have any idea at all what to expect, other than more “likes” and more “followers”? Read more
March 16, 2012 - Responsive Design for SharePoint Websites
The argument to provide multi-device and multi-channel support for your website is compelling. Three years ago, desktops made up around 90% of the devices we used to connect to the internet. That percentage has now dropped to around 50%, solely due to the number of smartphones and tablets contented to the internet — a trend that it’s fair to assume will continue to grow. Read more
March 1, 2012 - BlackBerry 10 OS to Support Microsoft ActiveSync, No BES: What It Means for IT
IT administrators will be able to connect new BlackBerry smartphones running RIM's upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS directly to Microsoft Exchange corporate servers using Microsoft's ActiveSync technology, eliminating the need for a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). Read more
January 27, 2012 - The 2012 Microsoft Product Roadmap
The star of last year's product roadmap was Office 365. Microsoft this year looks likely to pivot from the public cloud to the private cloud, while also shipping staples like SQL Server and releasing major betas -- and possibly final versions -- of blockbusters including Windows 8 tablet, client and server, and Office 15. Read more
January 11, 2012 - Application development in the cloud with SharePoint Online 2010
Microsoft launched Office 365 (O365) in June 2010, including SharePoint 2010 Online, as an update to its existing Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) suite that offered SharePoint 2007 Online. But what is SharePoint? Read more
January 11, 2012 - Microsoft's Offers Users Enhanced Office 365 for Less than a Happy Meal
Microsoft is adding new features its least expensive Office 365 subscription tier, the Kiosk Worker Plan. For a few additional dollars per user per month, users receive some useful capabilities and twice the email storage. Read more
January 6, 2012 - Temporary and Contract Hiring to Increase in 2012
More than a third (35 percent) of American companies are operating with smaller staffs than before the recession. To keep pace with market demand, many are turning to staffing and recruiting companies and temporary workers. Thirty-six percent of companies will hire contract or temporary workers in… Read more
December 21, 2011 - New SharePoint 2010 features aid in enterprise content management
SharePoint has come a long way since its infancy a decade ago. Over the last 10 years, it has undergone various changes that have helped to broaden the software’s usefulness and business value. In the latest version, SharePoint 2010, one of the major areas of improvement involved the… Read more
November 21, 2011 - Despite push, Google Apps not gaining on Microsoft Office
Google has targeted Microsoft’s lucrative Office software business but hasn’t made much of an impact with bigger businesses. The New York Times reports that Google’s Apps for Businesses cloud-based word processing and e-mail software has been popular with some smaller businesses… Read more

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