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View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleOffice 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...
View ArticleDavid 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...
View ArticleBlog 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...
View ArticleAdobe & 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...
View ArticleGilbane 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...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleBe 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...
View ArticleSemantic 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleSharePoint – 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleGilbane 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...
View ArticleOffice 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...
View ArticleSharePoint 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...
View ArticleTime 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...
View ArticleTablets 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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