I have been playing around with SharePoint 2007 for a while now and I think I am most impressed by the power that it puts into the hands of IT savvy end users, to create line of business solutions and to enhance these solutions further by integration with Office 2007. ...
Although I work from home and tend to be always connected to the Internet, I still find that I really like to use products that allow me to work off-line. Not only is the performance often better, but it’s more reliable and I still spend a couple of hours a...
Microsoft’s Knowledge network looks interesting, it uses a client side component to gather information from your PC including email authors and recipients, Outlook contacts, IM contacts, manager (as defined in Active Directory), managers direct reports and your direct reports and SharePoint 2007 colleagues and it also analyses email subject and body text...
I do a lot of Microsoft watching, and its pretty difficult to get a good overall impression of what’s going on in the company. I have just discovered that all of the briefing sessions from the Microsoft Financial Analysis meeting are now available as online webcasts, even better they also...
A few weeks ago I had a planning session with Microsoft where we discussed requirements for the version of windows to follow Vista. During that meeting I used newsgator as an example of my ideal service, it embodies in principle – and increasingly in execution – all that I see...
Microsoft have just published a set of short videos that give a great introduction of the new features in Exchange 2007, definitely worth checking out. Most of these videos use OWA, for more information on Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007 check out the better together site. I liked the unified messaging videos...
I must have been asleep during May because I missed the announcement of this tool, which is an add-on to Office SharePoint 2007 and also includes a client component that allows an individual to control the information from their local Email folders and IM that they want to submit to SharePoint...
I keep hearing people describe IT as increasingly commoditized and they are often discussing PC’s and office products at the time. This gets me frustrated because in my experience these particular technologies are anything but commodities. Although there are very many definitions of commodity I used to think that Peter...
Brian Madden provides some useful insights into the affect of Microsoft’s intention to acquire Softricity. I for one believe this is a really big deal as it will bring virtualization technologies into the mainstream. One of the things that has held virtualization back is the fact that every enterprise has...
I have Office 2007 running now on my Tablet and Laptop, both running XP, but my desktop machine (2003 server) is not something I would risk putting Office 2007 on yet, mainly because I collaborate with too many people who are on previous versions of Office. At least that was...