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Treo 600 Info

Treo™ 600 is a small, simple to use smartphone with a built-in QWERTY keyboard. It seamlessly combines a full-featured quad-band GSM/GPRS mobile phone and a Palm OS® organiser with messaging applications such as email, SMS and MMS, a web browser, and even a digital camera–to simplify both your business and...

The last two weeks

Wondering why there have been no blog posts for the last two weeks?  Well in fact there have been lots,  on Office 12 and Office System but they are covered by a non disclosure agreement and so won’t appear until the PDC next month.  That’s one of the best features...

Office 12 and Beyond – Real time collaboration

Main themes: Reduce cost, including travel and communications expenses Time to market, how to get breakthrough ideas to market faster Distributed teams, how do I get a global organisation to act in concert Connect people, especially customers and suppliers Access to information and people 4 key capability areas, which are...

Groove positioning and Office 12

Mac Olsen is the Group Program Manager for Groove integration Key points about Groove: Best for people who need to work with each other when they don’t share a common infrastructure Need to work off-line Need robust security A few extra services have been created to make Groove more acceptable...

Project 12 and Project Server

Project Standard improvements are very uninspiring basically it is focussed on the following areas: Easy to get started Great looking reports Connected to your business,  eg integrate with accounting system Enterprise Project Management seems more driven around issues with previous product: Resolve existing pain points Scale up to programmes, shared...

Office 12 – Finalising and Protecting Documents

Four main areas: Inspect the document, to make sure comments, review, meta-data etc is not left in by accident Mark as final Signatures Digital rights management Document inspector,  replaces the “remove hidden document” tool which is a free add-on and optionally removes the following: Comments and revisions Document information, document...

Office 12 Workflow

This post is being written as it happens at the Office System conference Workflow was essentially un-usable in WSS v2, for most real world business scenarios, so this session is key to positioning the role of Office System 12. This is the process they are trying to support: Create Edit/review Ready...

Standard Document Management in the Office System

This post is being written as it happens at the Office System conference because I won’t have any time to catch up with my note taking tonight, going out for a meal with the Partner Architecture group. Document management was essentially un-usable in WSS v2, for most real world business...

Blogging Office 12

It’s clear from the keynote today that the impact of Office 12 is, as expected, going to be considerable.  Here are some of the key points: The integrated value proposition “integrated innovation” is ever stronger with each release,  it is very impressive with Office 12.  There is no comparison between...

Branch offices and Longhorn

A few of the longhorn technologies seem great for branch offices which we can assume to lack physical security and the high levels of management required for enterprise class service integrity.  if we string together Secure Startup (lack of security), read-only Domain Controllers (lack of service integrity, but resiliance to network outages)...