Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’sselections. Q&A: Microsoft’s Roskill Outlines Office 365 Opportunities, Cloud Incentives For PartnersJon Roskill, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, discusses Office 365 opportunities for partners. Microsoft’s Outlook.com scores 1 million usersMicrosoft’s new email service, Outlook.com, has been hailed…
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Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 7/27/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’sselections. Three Reasons You Should Switch to Office 365Office 365 is “a solid service providing tremendous bang for the buck … it won’t be easy to beat the value it brings to the table.” Office 2013/365 may be Microsoft’s most…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 7/20/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’sselections. Microsoft Unveils New Cloud-Friendly Version Of OfficeMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer previews new version of Office; it’s “no ordinary upgrade.” Microsoft Office 2013 to include social, cloud featuresThe next version of Office software will include social and cloud features that…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 3/23/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Early Office 365 Adopters: What Drove Them and What Have They Learned?Both companies trialed alternative online and cloud-based messaging and office suites, notably Google Apps, before electing to stick with Microsoft, though for different reasons. Office 365 in…
Are You Missing Something Important?
To get your point across, style matters. Making your point takes flair and sometimes some swagger, and you always need substance. So, your message needs to be complete and your document’s format needs to be what you intended. Of course, you want to have all of the pieces in your message, including your charts and…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 2/3/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. RIM Releases BlackBerry Service for Office 365RIM’s BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 enables synchronization and management, using Microsoft ActiveSync to connect a BlackBerry device with hosted Microsoft Exchange. Contacts, e-mail and calendar application data can…
My New Year’s Resolutions for 2012
I’m all about self-improvement and this time of year, there’s nothing like a few good resolutions to motivate me to change for the better. I care about excellence in the productivity tools people use every day. So, in my annual tradition, I’ve made these New Year’s Resolutions for 2012. I will be thankful that, despite citation…
Keeping Private Documents Private
When I share an email or a document with a colleague and ask for their confidentiality, I trust that they won’t share the information with others. Yet information that is particularly business- sensitive tends to be quite interesting, so we learn in the press when people are tempted to break the rules. For instance, last…
Microsoft Tools Prepare Students for the Workplace
In this post I plan to share why schools, colleges and universities use Microsoft cloud and desktop services. Students, administrators and educators are using the hosted service, Live@edu to collaborate and be productive with email and calendaring. In fact, while educators have counted on Microsoft tools for decades, Live@edu has become the world’s most widely…
Google Atmosphere or “Admosphere”?
Are you ad-opting a productivity vendor or advertising partner? At Atmosphere today, Google will try to court CIOs. CIOs are a tough audience, and they should be. They are looking for solutions to increase productivity, foster collaboration and take their organizations to the next level in an efficient and effective way. This is serious business….