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Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in 2010
Microsoft’s just-announced free anti-virus/anti-malware service, codenamed Morro, isn’t the only new Microsoft security service in the works.
Company officials made a passing reference at their SharePoint Online/Exchange Online launch earlier this week to a new Microsoft-hosted service that will be part of the Online family. A Microsoft blog posting on November 18 shed a bit more [...] -
Microsoft to Launch Online SharePoint, Exchange on Monday
Microsoft on Monday will release the first of several of its hosted business-productivity services.
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The company will launch Exchange Online and SharePoint Online at an event in San Francisco, according to an e-mail from its public relations firm. A spokeswoman from the agency confirmed that the services will be available Monday.
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Exchange Online, a hosted version of [...] -
Filter Pack For Windows Search
Sarah Perez: I had been using the latest and greatest search tool for my XP PC, Windows Search 4.0, but somehow I had missed this: the Filter Pack for searching in Office documents. With the the Microsoft Filter Pack installed, Windows Search 4.0 is able to search within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office 2007 [...]
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How Microsoft will compete with ‘free’
How do you compete with free? That’s the question Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, is trying to answer every morning when he goes to work. On the server software side, Windows Server is doing well, especially with the Exchange e-mail server and the unheralded but very good collaboration server, SharePoint. These products have matured, they’re relatively [...]
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Microsoft a Leader in Gartner Enterprise Content Management Magic Quadrant
The ECM MQ, authored by Karen Shegda, evaluates different vendors in the ECM space, and Microsoft moved from Visionary to Leader this year overtaking three other vendors for the best vision score on the MQ.
The report states, “Of all the infrastructure vendors, Microsoft has driven the most change in the ECM market over the past [...] -
Blogging again
Some of my old readers would have noticed that I’ve stopped blogging for quite a while now. Thing in my personal life, kept me busy and off blogging.
However, I am very much here, and dying to start blogging again. While I was in hibernation, the world has moved ahead leaps and bounds. MOSS is getting [...] -
Top 10 New Features of Windows Server 2008
As Windows 2008 is now officially released ( and people suspect that the release of Vista SP1 is similar to the codebase of Windows Server 2008 ), it would be nice recap the top new features which are making its way to us. I found this nice article which introduces to some of the fantastic [...]
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Microsoft rolls out innovation pitch
Microsoft has launched a new initiative designed to streamline the process of bringing new ideas and practices to life.
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The Innovation Process Management scheme aims to help businesses bring potential innovations to fruition, and to bring multiple parties together on an idea.
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The software will be built on top of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and will [...]