My name is Brandon Hoff and I am a Technical Product Manager here at Microsoft and have been working on Exchange for almost 10 years. Since the introduction of Outlook into the Office suite in 1997, I have come across my fair share of connectors (IBM, Novell, et al) which have attempted to provide a…
Tag: SharePoint 2010
Spring is in the air!
On Friday we finalized the code for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 in what we call RTM (“Release to Manufacturing”). Customers with active Software Assurance (SA) on these products will be able to download the products in English via the Volume Licensing Service Center starting April 27. (Credit: Takeshi Numoto, CVP, Microsoft Office for this…
WordPad’s ruler now matched by Google Docs
At the beginning of the week, Anil Sabharwal, Product Manager, for Google Apps wrote a blog post “ Laying the foundation for a new Google Docs” Please do read it: I found it thought provoking to hear how Google articulates the excitement of their new groundbreaking features: · Users will now have the ability to…
PC, Phone, Browser – 90 Seconds to Why Microsoft
I recently read the CIO Magazine “State of the CIO” survey. What I found interesting was that 63% of CIO respondents said ‘improving end-user workforce productivity’ would be the one of the most significant accomplishments in the year ahead. So for the upcoming release of Office/SharePoint 2010, we’ve been talking a lot about our investments in…