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12/17/2010

Deploying Office 2010 - Avoiding the Pitfalls

With many enterprises are gearing up for, or already underway with, migrations to Microsoft Office 2010, a leading analysis firm warns decision makers to plan ahead.


12/15/2010

Analysts’ Office 2010 Concerns Are Overblown

Despite the fact that Office 2010 is the fastest-selling edition of Office yet, some still believe that upgrading shouldn’t be a no-brainer.


10/18/2010

This is the T-Mobile HTC HD7 (with Windows Phone 7)

Alongside the largest screen, you also have the biggest virtual keyboard available on a Windows Phone in the U.S. This awesome device keeps you connected with the fully integrated Microsoft Exchange e-mail as well as Office Hub, that comes with the popular productivity programs such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace.


10/15/2010

When Microsoft Office PowerPoint Meets Windows Mobile 7

Microsoft Office Mobile, the mobile version of Microsoft Office applications, is the solution built in the Office hub made for Windows Phone 7, which doesn’t need you to download or install anything else to get started, but just go to the Office hub on your phone to open and work on your Microsoft Office documents. Through the Office hub, you can start using the Microsoft PowerPoint Mobile, as well as other Office Mobile applications on your phone, including: Microsoft Word Mobile, Microsoft Excel Mobile, Microsoft OneNote Mobile and Microsoft SharePoint Workspace Mobile.


9/14/2010

September Security Patch Addresses Windows and Office Flaws

IT pros can now get their hands on nine fixes for Windows systems, addressing 11 vulnerabilities.


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Info Bridge Framework

12/14/2010

Microsoft puts the finishing touches on Small Business Server 2011

On December 13, Microsoft released to manufacturing two of its upcoming small-business-focused servers: Windows Small Business Server 2011 (codenamed SBS 7).


9/25/2010

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Won't Support Tethering

Tethering allows users to connect their phones to a laptop and use the phone's network to connect to the Web. Though many smartphones can technically support tethering, the decision to switch that functionality on usually lies with the carriers.


6/1/2010

Panzura hopes to shift storage to the cloud from the PC

Panzura is announcing today it is diving into the market to provide web-connected cloud storage that is faster than storage devices attached directly to enterprise computers.


5/1/2010

Windows Phone 7: A Good Bet?

Windows Phone 7 is an example of the 'Softies' newfound love of design overshadowing the usual Microsoft values -- like backward compatibility, developer-tool choice and partners as king


1/12/2009

Windows 7 SDK beta arrives

Due to the chaos and craze over downloading a beta operating system, many missed the news that Microsoft had also made the Windows 7 beta SDK available


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Research ServiceZ

10/27/2008

How to do email management on SharePoint?

Businesses can use tools like SharePoint to manage most of their important business documents, but the inability to easily place emails into SharePoint and share those files within a document library is a problem that many SharePoint users have encountered.


12/15/2007

MySQL Releases Database Connector Beta

A beta version of MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1 is available, with Unicode support.


12/3/2007

Microsoft Boosts Tools for adCenter, Live Search

Microsoft unveils online ad and search utilities to help advertisers and search engine experts do their jobs better.


11/28/2007

Microsoft's Enterprise Search Server

Experts say Microsoft Search Server Express and Search Server probably will be judged initially as being "good enough" for divisions, departments or workgroups. "Being able to do it for free at an entry level, being able to install it easily makes it compelling to look at," says Jim Murphy, an analyst with AMR Research.


9/17/2004

Microsoft Releases Resarch Development Extras Toolkit

This toolkit contains sample research services built to help you learn how to use the Research Service Development Extras. The samples are provided in Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#® languages. You can find them in the Samples directory included with this toolkit.


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Smart TagZ

12/9/2010

Microsoft's Missing the Boat on Kinect for Office

As an Xbox add-on, Microsoft Kinect demonstrates admirable innovation, though I personally like more tactile feedback in my game experiences.


8/11/2010

Getting Things Done on Twitter

You can learn from watching how these folks use Twitter as they have access to the best brains in the business and are usually one step ahead of the rest of us.


3/2/2009

Microsoft and FathomDB target RDBMS clouds

There were two very interesting pieces of news to come out in the last week related to the availability of relational databases in the cloud. One involved a start-up you have almost certainly never heard of, and the other involves a major player in on-premise database products.


11/21/2008

Use VSTO 3 to add SmartTags to Excel 2007

SmartTags are simplified in VSTO 3 Service Pack 1. You get VSTO 3 Service Pack 1 when you download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 from Microsoft. Google for it. Once you have that, you can add a SmartTag very easily.


7/10/2008

Creating Application-Level Smart Tags in VSTO

VSTO’s document-level Smart Tags are great when you want to recognize a term in a particular document or a class of document created from a template. What are your options when you want to recognize a term in all open documents?


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