Oct 28

Microsoft’s visions for the future

Video of Microsoft Productivity Vision of the Future

Every few years, Microsoft releases a ‘vision for the future’ video showing concepts of future technologies. The emphasis of the latest one is on productivity enabled by interactive screens everywhere with easy real-time updates enabled by cloud computing.


Oct 05

Why design means compromise

Building Plans

Good design means the appearance of an object is created with consideration to, or in conjunction with, function and purpose. The goal should be more than being admired for looks…


Feb 15

SharePoint and Windows Mobile 7

Windows Mobile 7 and SharePoint 2010

You can access any document from your Sharepoint server with editing and creation functionalities on your phone.

Today Microsoft finally unveiled Windows Mobile 7, a major upgrade to their mobile phone operating system software. And with it they also announced the Office Hub – accessing Office and SharePoint through the phone. At last…


Nov 21

From PowerPivot to Pivot

Hot on the heels of announcing the new PowerPivot for Excel at the SharePoint conference recently, Microsoft’s Live Labs have announced another new tool with a very similar name: Pivot. So it seems we have PowerPivot for Excel and Pivot for the web. There’s no mention of whether or not the products are technically related [...]


May 08

Programming Office

The reaction to a previous post – Rethinking Office – has been interesting. Quite a few people have argued that Microsoft won’t make an online version of Office available until they absolutely have to, because it will destroy sales of the full product. It makes sense to protect the full product, given it contributes a [...]


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