12 posts and columns on SharePoint

Yammer Now Works With Box.net and Five Other Cloud Services

in News on November 9, 2011 at 5:48 am PT

The quiet but fast-growing social enterprise software player adds six cloud services to its activity streams, but more importantly turns on a new activity stream feature.
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Box.net, The File Sharing and Collaboration Cloud For Businesses, Raises $48 Million

in Enterprise on February 24, 2011 at 5:15 am PT

Box.net, the cloud-based collboration and file-sharing service launched a in a dorm room, has landed a big round of venture capital funding–and has also raised some debt.

Still Strong: Microsoft Beat Estimates as Quarterly Sales Neared $20 Billion

in Mobile on January 27, 2011 at 1:07 pm PT

Microsoft on Thursday reported earnings and revenue that topped expectations and rose significantly from a year ago amid strong sales from its Xbox and Office units. However, Microsoft’s outlook was limited, offering specific guidance only for operating expenses.

Microsoft and HP Show Off the Fruits of Their Partnership

in Enterprise on January 18, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

One year later, it’s time to see what the world’s biggest software company and the world’s biggest IT company could do with $250 million and a year to collaborate on cloud products.

Weathering the Storm, RIM Makes Its Business Case in Boston

in Mobile on January 13, 2011 at 7:11 am PT

Mobilized is in Beantown Thursday to hear Research In Motion talk about its plans for the enterprise. The event, at the Marriott Copley Place downtown, kicked off around 10 am ET. Here are the highlights.

Microsoft’s New Windows Phone 7: Novel But Lacking

in Personal Technology on October 20, 2010 at 4:03 pm PT

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system has a novel and attractive interface, but it lacks key features now common in its rivals’ phones, writes Walt.

Mac Users Are Getting New Outlook From Rival

in Personal Technology on October 13, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT

Microsoft significantly improved each of the key components for its new Macintosh version of Office coming out Oct. 26, which finally includes a robust Mac version of Outlook, writes Walt.

Windows Phone 7: There’s an App for Some of That

in News on October 11, 2010 at 9:15 am PT

How many Windows Phone 7 apps will be available when the first devices running the OS ship? Microsoft refuses to say, but I’m told it will be plenty. Or, as one exec told me, “enough.”

Windows Phone 7: It’s Now or Never

in Mobile on October 11, 2010 at 3:15 am PT

With the launch of Windows Phone 7 today, Microsoft is taking another shot at a market even its CEO, Steve Ballmer, concedes it stumbled in. “We were ahead of this game and now we find ourselves No. 5 in the market,” he said at our D8 conference this past summer. “We missed a whole cycle.” Badly, too.

New From Microsoft: Google Apps

in News on March 3, 2008 at 3:51 pm PT

In a May 1995 memo entitled “The Internet Tidal Wave,” Microsoft (MSFT) founder Bill Gates declared that the Internet was the “most important single development” since the IBM PC, one that was fast becoming a global communications and computing medium. “I have gone through several stages of increasing my views of its importance,” he wrote. [...]

Google 'Not-Office' Finally Completed

in News, February 28, 2008 at 8:01 am PT

Google ‘Not-Office’ Finally Completed

in News, February 28, 2008 at 8:01 am PT