Microsoft design point is to co-mingle structured collaboration tools alongside social computing tools - it's unrealistic to think of social computing disconnected from collaborations strategies Microsoft also thinks of the IT Pro ... Microsoft believes SharePoint scales to meet as narrow or broad a view an organization has on social computing, you can use it in a very classic Notes from Christian Finn, Director, Social Computing 13 sessions in "social track"

I thought I would offer some comments on some UC predictions offered by Gurdeep Singh Pall, who heads Microsoft's UC group: No Jitter | Microsoft: Gurdeep's UC Predictions single identity with presence at the core is spot on - but it makes you wonder why Microsoft does not openly share its rich presence information? 1. UC gets unified The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and the problem is made worse by vendors who slap a "unified" label on products that are anything but.

Hoy he pasado el día en el IE asistiendo a un seminario sobre cloud computing (por aquello de que a) Uno vende consultoría de estrategia tecnológica y hay que contrastar y actualizar ideas en un terreno tan importante, y b) Este es uno de mis temas de interés porque va a ser uno de los puntales de la evolución que estamos viendo hacia la “ vida iphónica “, y eso toca muchas, muchas facetas en la práctica… pero éso es otra historia . A cargo de ENTER, un contubernio del IE con Accenture y Microsoft (si no he entendido mal). Unas notas rápidas. Organización.

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Microsoft is trying to "have it's cake and eat it to". Is SharePoint getting so complex and so inter-twined that no one should expect a more streamlined release cycle - regardless of cloud. Cloud does not make it any easier for Microsoft to deliver business capabilities defacto any faster if (1) internally, the development cycle remains the same and (2) there are no specific architectural changes to allow different collections of components to be released at different pace rates.  Jeff Teper, Corporate VP; Kirk Koenigsbauer, GM Question: A follow-up to a response

Microsoft announced this week (Monday, March 2, 2009), that its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), was available for trial in 19 countries. My guess is that Microsoft went with Live Meeting because the OCS version of web conferencing has a limit of around 250 participants, and perhaps there were technical issues. Longer term, I think Microsoft has to rationalize Live Meeting and OCS web conferencing as the collide in the It disclosed Office Communications Online would be available in April 2009. I

or social computing area, it’s not Microsoft’s fault. can be implemented at a tooling level with Lotus Notes or Microsoft SharePoint, or one of the new fancy products. But then I have a book -- Seamless Teamwork -- published by Microsoft Press, that talks about how to do team collaboration with SharePoint. With SharePoint not giving Last week Thomas Vander Wal trashed SharePoint as an enterprise social computing platform in a blog post entitled SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools . He ultimately concluded that SharePoint failed for enterprise 2.0.

They provide native viewing and editing of Microsoft® Office documents in over 47 languages. Since Quickoffice connects to the cloud, you can access data in such sources as Apple’s MobleMe. David said that Microsoft has been opening up access to Office functionality. Here is another app for your iPhone. I

They provide native viewing and editing of Microsoft® Office documents in over 47 languages. Since Quickoffice connects to the cloud, you can access data in such sources as Apple’s MobleMe. David said that Microsoft has been opening up access to Office functionality. Here is another app for your iPhone. I

The company has already made several moves in terms of acquisitions (WebEx, PostPath, Jabber) and strategy (describing a general direction regarding collaboration and SaaS/Cloud computing via WebEx Connect). While the media stories below fail to provide detailed product guidance as to where Cisco is going, the information does provide interesting insight as to how Cisco’s leadership team thinks about collaboration, cloud computing, and other market initiatives. Over the past several weeks, two Cisco events generated a great deal of media coverage (refer to “In The News” below). For