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Microsoft has been awarded a patent for XML word processing.

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Open Document Formats, Religion & Democracy

Two of the topics in the title are things we normally don’t touch in this blog. However, the tempest over Massachusetts’s OpenDocumentFormat decision is inflaming passions almost as much as religious...

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Office Documents and eXtensibility

Jon Udell wrote yesterday that we should really be getting beyond the office document format debate swirling around the Massachusetts decision, because all heavy footprint authoring applications are...

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David Berlind ACT Interview on the Massachusetts ODF Decision Video

Bob Doyle at CMSReview has once again generously devoted his time and resources to record and produce one of the events at our recent Boston conference. David Berlind from ZDNet, who has tracked the...

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Blog posting from Word 2007

Looks like Microsoft is adding blog posting support to Word 2007 in a way that not only does not screw up your HTML, but attempts to take advantage of Word features bloggers care about without other...

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Adobe & Microsoft headed for battle over PDF

The Wall Street Journal reported today that talks between Adobe and Microsoft over the inclusion of PDF creation in the upcoming release of Office have broken down, and they speculate that Adobe will...

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Gilbane Boston Keynote Press Release: The Future of Content Management

For Immediate Release: Gilbane Boston Keynote Panel to Debate the Future of Content Management Largest Collection of Industry Analysts, Researchers, and Practitioners Gather to Provide Unique Balanced...

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Google and Microsoft debate Enterprise Search in keynote at Gilbane San...

Join us on April 11, 8:30am at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco for Gilbane San Francisco 2007 We have expanded our opening keynote to include a special debate between Microsoft and Google on...

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Be one of the first to see, and touch, SharePoint 2010

With the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 “The business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web”, Microsoft is hoping to accelerate the already dramatic growth of SharePoint. The...

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Semantic Search – Ready for Prime Time?

E3. Semantic Search – Ready for Prime Time? Where: Gilbane Boston Conference, Westin Copley When: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 2:40pm – 4:00pm The experience of search that most of us are familiar with...

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Microsoft Releases Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system

Microsoft announced the availability of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. The service pack includes major performance enhancements for Office applications, most notably...

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The SharePoint Backend- What are the Headaches – What are the benefits

As I pointed out in my first post (SharePoint: Without the Headaches – A Discussion of What is Available in the Cloud,) you don’t necessarily need to host SharePoint in your own organization....

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SharePoint – Migrating the Office Franchise to the Web

Microsoft has a lot to lose if they are unable to coax customers to continue to use and invest in Office.  Google is trying to woo people away by providing a complete online experience with Google...

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Microsoft Discontinuing eReader

Microsoft is discontinuing Microsoft Reader effective August 30, 2012, which includes download access of the Microsoft Reader application from the Microsoft Reader website. However, customers may...

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Gilbane Advisor 9-27-17 — Killing keyboards, conquering healthcare, framework...

Will Microsoft’s new augmented reality patent kill the keyboard? Well, there is a difference between the function of a keyboard, typing, which has legs for the foreseeable future, and its physical...

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Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 Available for Business Customers Today

Microsoft has announced that the 2010 release of Office, SharePoint, Visio and Project are available to business customers worldwide. 2010 Releases are Available to Businesses after Record Beta...

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SharePoint 2010 – Get the Full Story

With the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 “The business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web”, Microsoft is hoping to accelerate the already dramatic growth of SharePoint. The...

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Time to re-check your mobile development strategy

The mobile platform landscape has changed dramatically in the last few months. So much so that organizations who even recently reached decisions on a mobile development strategy should re-visit their...

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Tablets in the Enterprise and BYOD strategies

A couple of observations about tablets in the enterprise: Tablets of all dimensions have a role in enterprise use, as do all types of personal computing devices. BYOD is certainly a challenge for some...

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