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Changing Enterprise IT; Windows Market Share Declining; Windows Facial Recognition
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Microsoft's Own Numbers Suggest Declining Windows Market Share (InfoWorld)
Last summer, Microsoft announced that it had sold 175,000,000 Windows 7 licenses through the end of June 2010. Cranking together a few numbers produced some surprising results,…
Learning from Amazons Cloud Collapse; Is Social Business Collaboration a Fad?; Microsoft Office 365 Impact
Happy Earth Day! What will you do to contribute to the Billion Acts of Green? --Chris
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VARs Still Unsure of Microsoft Office 365 Impact (SearchITChannel)
The private beta of Microsoft Office 365…
BambooCRM and BambooSupport Stack Up in Value Against Microsoft Dynamics
In continuing our discussion on how the Bamboo Cloud features compare to some of the other solutions you may be considering, we wanted to take a look at Microsoft Dynamics. First and foremost, customers who have evaluated both solutions agree that the Bamboo Cloud offers an easier…
Process Platform for Enterprise Software; Office 365 Beta Issues; WP7 Needs to Win
Does anyone know of a good SharePoint Web Part that can help with spring allergies? --Chris
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Hidden in the Cloud – The Process Platform for Enterprise Software (SOAWorld)
Cloud computing remains the most discussed subject…
This Week in Bamboo (April 10th, 2011 - April 16th, 2011)
This week, we updated the User Profile Sync application with the new installation program and fixed some major bugs for SharePoint File Share Library in both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 versions. With the latest release of Tree View Web Part for SharePoint 2007, we fixed the issue when…
Office 365 Beta is Worth Testing; Prepare Your Website for IE9; Please Stop Saying Cloud
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Why the Office 365 Beta is Worth Testing (ZDNet)
It’s hard to review any e-mail or productivity platform without actually using it. And by “using it,” I don’t mean “installing some beta code and banging on…
Whats in Office 365?; Office 365 Isnt Mobile Enough; Microsoft Heads to Supreme Court
It seems that all the news reports today were focused on the release of Microsoft Office 365. Maybe I should change this site to Office 365 Daily. --Chris
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Microsoft Office 365 Beta Opens for Business: What's Inside…
Office 365 Beta Launches; IT Not Convinced By the Cloud; L.A. May Sue Over Google Apps
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InfoWorld Preview: Office 365 Beta (NetworkWorld)
In spite of what you may have heard, Microsoft isn't betting the farm on Office 365. But Redmond is certainly sacrificing its largest cash cow to the cloud gods. With Office 365 available…
Top Collaboration Apps; Microsoft Demos IE10 on ARM; Rivals Mock Microsofts Native HTML5 Claims
Friday randomness... Normally April 15 is tax day in the US, but this year it seems we get an extra three days. Today is the last day to submit your donation receipts for Operation ShareLove. I'm not…
Why the Hosted SharePoint Features Give Bamboo Cloud Users a Competitive Advantage
We are getting some great questions these days on what it means to have hosted SharePoint features built right into the Bamboo Cloud, and we'd like to take a moment to answer them, by way of the Bamboo Nation.
First, the Bamboo Cloud offers two stand-alone,…
Best Practices UK - Day 3; No IE10 for Vista; Kinect Coming to Windows
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Adopting Enterprise Cloud Computing: A Graduated Transformation (SOA World)
Enterprise IT organizations are in the midst of deep and lasting change. IT used to be your cable company: It held the local monopoly for IT services. The…
BPCUK: Matthew McDermott on Developing Social Applications with SharePoint 2010
Given the tightrope-walking aspect it represented for me, and given that it was the afternoon of the third day, choosing a demo-heavy offering from the Dev track to end my European SharePoint Best Practices Conference experience with might not have been the wisest course. Fortune favors the bold though, right? …
ESPBPC: Day 3 from the Bamboo Booth
Greetings again from London! The final day of the show is underway though the sun has gone away, it's not raining so we can't complain. Unlike a lot of events I've attended, the booth traffic has been pretty steady throughout the entire week which while it keeps us busy (and tired…
BPCUK: Preparing for SharePoint 2010 and Real World Experiences with Paul Grimley
At the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference this morning, Paul Grimley presented a session on preparing for a SharePoint 2010 deployment. Paul began by outlining the challenges and considerations that are particular to a "Greenfield" (fresh) installation versus an upgrade from an earlier version of SharePoint, as…
New Faces of Bamboo: Introducing Miriam Maggi
Editor's note: There have been several new additions to the Bamboo team since our last "New Faces" series, so it's time once again to introduce the new folks to Bamboo Nation. Next up is Miriam Maggi, Inside Sales Assistant...
What is your role at Bamboo, and…
BPCUK: Daniel McPherson on The Wisdom in Your Crowds
Daniel McPherson, of zevenseas, gave an excellent presentation Tuesday on the value of social computing. He particularly applied it to a corporate setting - where quite honestly I went into his session with the firm mind that it has been overhyped and is of little value to…
BPCUK: Michael Noel on Planning Extranet Environments with SharePoint 2010
Michael Noel delivered his final session of the European Best Practices Conference this morning on the topic of SharePoint 2010 extranets. Opening with the questions, "What are extranets and why would you bother with extranets?," Michael pointed out that extranets are used to provide the ability…
Best Practices UK - Day 2; Windows Everywhere; Harsh Reality of Cloud Platforms
A few weeks ago our friend Dux Raymond Sy wrote about helping in Japan and New Zealand through Operation ShareLove along with the possible prizes you might win. It isn't too late to enter but time is quickly running out. Winners will be picked this Friday via…
This Week in Bamboo (April 3rd, 2011 - April 9th, 2011)
At Bamboo this week, we fixed some major bugs for SharePoint Poll Web Part, SharePoint Project Management Central (PM Central) and continued to roll out a new set of products using our new installation program for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. It is important that with the…
BPCUK: ‘Understanding the Steps Necessary for Building an Information Architecture for your Organization’ with your Host, Bill English
Bill English presented this afternoon to a packed roomful of attendees (with many standing, or sitting on the floor) at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference. Mentioning upfront that his session would build upon the one he presented yesterday on "findability and putability," Bill stressed that this would…
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