Designing a better workday.
Designing a better workday.
At our annual sales conference (‘kick-off’) Microsoft Netherlands received the award for ‘Subsidiary of the Year’ in the category Large Developed Countries :-). The photo shows our General Manager Theo Rinsema (in the orange shirt) on stage with Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Kevin Turner and Jean-Philippe Courtois. This is the crown…
The Microsoft HomeServer team released the product to manufacturing. If you want to know more about HomeServer check the homepage. … Woo-hoo! We did it. Today we are announcing that Windows Home Server has been released to manufacturing (RTM). We have finalized the software and now handing it off to…
Jerry Fishenden has written quite a balanced view on OpenXML and the ISO standardisation process currently in the works. Jerry Microsoft UK’s lead technology advisor and spokesman on the value and implications of present and future technological developments. His blog on issues of technology and public policy can be found…
Gisteren had ik de mogelijkheid om een presentatie te geven over mijn ervaringen als blogger bij een van onze partners. Een uur lang praten over iets dat je heel leuk vind is … heel leuk :-). Er is uiteraard altijd veel meer te vertellen dan je in een uurtje kwijt…
Sure Microsoft still has a long way to go with regards to marketshare of Internet Search. The recent growth in marketshare is related to very creative relations between online games and Search according to the article quoted below. … No Dumb Clucks: Microsoft Boosts Search Share With Chicken Game SEATTLE…
Brian Jones is a program manager in the Microsoft Office Team. His main focus is on XML in Office and the Open XML File Formats in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Brian has posted an update to his Open XML Timeline which gives a very good perspective on OpenXML in relation…
Forrester highlights some of the Microsft / SAP joint development in DUET. This solution continues to gain momentum … Microsoft and SAP have announced an extended road map for their joint product Duet, which provides access to SAP data and processes natively from within Microsoft Office. With support for new…
Microsoft is a Leader in our evaluation of application server platforms, due to the strong and mature development, deployment, management, and interoperability features of its Windows Server platform, which is based on .NET. Microsoft isn’t pushing advanced features like real-time, business event management, and business rules as aggressively as its…
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search, that a mouthfull, but also a very powerfull Enterprise Search Solution. Various partners have now also started to build Search Appliances like this one below. Expect more, much more in the coming months … I’ve been meaning to blog about this little puppy…
More interoperability on the open standards front …. … Linux vendor Linspire on July 11 said that the new Open XML translator is now available for use in its latest Freespire and Linspire distributions. The Open XML translator enables bi-directional compatibility, so that files saved in the Microsoft-created Open XML…
