Category Archives: Microsoft

Josh Ledgard Program Manager working with the Visual Studio – Community Team at MSFT has a great post regarding the broader collaboration between Microsoft and the vast open source community (via /.). “It should be easy for teams here at … Continue reading →

Samuel Druker the Microsoft Development Lead for WinFS speaks on Channel 9 in video and in the threads about how WinFS will mean much more than simply full-text searching. (via Philipp Lenssen) Quotes from Samuel regarding WinFS differences with respect … Continue reading →

My buddy Martin over at BA-Insight (who incidentally kicked-off a great new blog on enterprise search) sent me a link to this article on CNET about comments Bill Gates made during a media briefing in Sydney Australia regarding the new … Continue reading →

Scott Woodgate over at MSDN TV demos “how easy it is to build a business process using Visual Studio .NET and BizTalk Server 2004, expose that business process as a Web service, and then consume the business process inside InfoPath … Continue reading →

MSDN posted this week a series of InfoPath 2003 SP-1 Training Exercises for the recent preview of InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1. I haven’t had time yet to run through the exercises, but they seem to be a good primer … Continue reading →

MSFT made a preview of OneNote 2003 SP1 available yesterday. In addition to being able to “Record video notes”, there are a number of other niceties too — like for example inserting documents from other Office programs into OneNote and … Continue reading →

Among the many interesting quotes in the recent Business Week Online Article regarding Microsoft’s Midlife Crisis, I found the following quote suggesting that one of the features scrapped from the initial release of Longhorn will be in the updated file … Continue reading →

At work, when I evangelize the benefits of using InfoPath as a tool for structured data collection and distribution, I talk about how, IMHO, InfoPath will someday unlock all the black-box business intelligence stuffed into Excel, Word, PowerPoint et al. … Continue reading →

CNET has an article that highlights some of Mr. Gates’ comments during a speech at the RSA Security conference held this week in SF. In particular, the following comment, which we’ve heard before with the hype around Smart Cards, but … Continue reading →

Via CNET I just read that today Microsoft released an update for InfoPath “Microsoft released a trial version Monday of its first major update to InfoPath, the new electronic forms application released last year as part of the Office family.” … Continue reading →

Tom’s Hardware Guide provides an in-depth review of Windows Future Storage (WinFS). Including some points I wasn’t quite sure of myselft… “Microsoft will not be building an entirely new file system after all. Windows Future Storage (WinFS) is integrated into … Continue reading →

Michael Sippey has a couple of good comments regarding Salesforce.com’s recently released “Office Edition,” which integrates its hosted SFA tightly with Microsoft Office: “The company that championed went overboard with their “no software” positioning is now touting their integration into … Continue reading →

Anil Dash put together a first-class summary of the *nix goodies found in Microsoft’s Windows Services for Unix, which was recently re-released as a free download (passport registration required). Even though I’m using Samba at home to connect my Windows … Continue reading →

I’m in training all week. So I’m a bit out of touch, but I just spotted this little Office “add-in” released by Microsoft that “can permanently remove hidden data and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Microsoft … Continue reading →

Others have mentioned the impact of the embedded RSS capabilities that will be in Longhorn. This time however, it’s Scoble talking about the broader implications of a syndication friendly OS “In Longhorn you can store a ton of metadata with … Continue reading →