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The Future of SharePoint is the Cloud #gartnerpcc
It's not exactly ground-breaking, but Jim Murphy, a research director in Gartner's web and cloud group, thinks Microsoft is trying to lure its SharePoint users into the cloud, despite the number of enterprises that are still using it on-premises. Speaking at this morning’s session on the future of SharePoint at
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Office 365 Now Makes You Look Smarter via Office Delve
Even though it’s cloudy in Redmond, Wash. today, it actually looks brighter. Oops sorry, it’s you that looks brighter if you’re one of the Office 365 Business users who is getting first access to Office Delve. Microsoft begins rolling it out today.
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Microsoft Cushions Google's Blows with Cash
Yes, Google is encroaching into Microsoft’s traditional business space in a vicious productivity fight. But Google's rebranding of its Enterprise Business as Google for Work yesterday seems to be a tacit acceptance — for the moment, at least — that Microsoft is the Enterprise Daddy.
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Microsoft: Pimp Your Office 365 Ride
When it comes to customer experience and engagement strategies, everyone knows appearance is everything. If that seems a bit shallow, Microsoft doesn’t seem to care. It just announced that it is allowing enterprises and users pimp their Office 365 — within reason, of course.
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Has Google Delivered a Killer Blow to Microsoft Office Apps?
Google quietly landed what could be a killer blow for Microsoft Apps with the release of a number of upgrades to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. The first piece of bad news for Microsoft: Google created a separate iOS app for Slides, its answer to Microsoft PowerPoint.
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Microsoft Leaves Ballmer Bleeding as It Moves On
If Steve Ballmer’s decision to step down from the board of Microsoft was sudden, it wasn’t a surprise. Once Satya Nadella stepped in as CEO and started changing Microsoft from a devices and services company to one focused on productivity and platforms, Ballmer had to go.
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Microsoft Releases (Almost) Last Windows Updates
Question: When is an update not an update? Answer: When Microsoft says so. If that seems a bit cryptic, consider this. Microsoft is releasing a number of updates to its Windows 8.1 operating system and Windows Server 2012 R2, but you’re not supposed to call them updates.
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Microsoft Matches Google By Upgrading Office for iPad
Microsoft Office is part of the iPad arsenal and 35 million users have downloaded since it was launched in March. Now Microsoft has issued several updates, which it describes as the features users request most often.
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Mac News: OneNote Upgraded, But What About Office?
Microsoft has just announced major upgrades for OneNote for Mac and iOS. They're interesting upgrades and point to a future where Microsoft works on cross-platform development, offering everyone access to everything. It’s a great vision. And while Microsoft is making progress, it is still far from reality.
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Google Smacks MS Office With Better Docs Collaboration
Google is making it even easier to move from Microsoft Office to Google Docs. At last month’s Google I/O conference, Google gave Office users the ability to edit documents in Docs, which was one of the sticking points for those considering a jump to Google.
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Microsoft Strikes Google by Slashing Office 365 Prices #WPC14
Microsoft announced a few weeks ago that it was going to provide transparency around its Office 365 business. — and also said it would be shaking up the price plans. It did just that at the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) and the good news is that prices are going down
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Microsoft Makes It Easier to Move to the Cloud #WPC14
Much of what's going to be announced this week at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington, DC, is already known.
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About Time! Microsoft Office is Coming to Android Tablets
When Satya Nadella took the reins as Microsoft’s CEO, he set a new vision for the company. Microsoft would now be designing, developing and delivering solutions for a Mobile First, Cloud First world. This is a world where there are multiple types of mobile devices that run on multiple operating systems.
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Oslo and Office Graph: Welcome to the Enterprise of Things
In March of this year Jared Spataro, general manager of Enterprise Social at Microsoft, introduced Office Graph and challenged us to “work like a network.” Office Graph -- which derived from Yammer’s Enterprise Graph concept -- analyzes user metadata from the Office 365 environment (Yammer, SharePoint Online, Lync
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