Google previously announced plans to merge data across all of its services in order improve the overall experience for the end users. Microsoft has accused Google of violating user privacy by reading their emails to generate ads on the page.
Microsoft’s Business Plan Collaborative Challenge 2012 is now underway. But this isn’t a competition open to any college student. No you have to be attending one of only ten colleges whose students are allowed to participate. Those colleges are: Berkeley, Columbia, MIT, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, or the University of Washington.
It seems like the current chapter in a dispute that is seven years old is coming to an end between Novell and Microsoft. Recently, Bill Gates testified in court after Novell accused Gates of anticompetitive practices to squeeze Novell out of the word processing market.
Microsoft’s new direction in the mobile application arena has many scratching their heads as the company recently started rolling out apps for Apple’s iOS platform. This seems like a different approach then previously seen with the company scrambling to poach development support for Windows Phone 7.
The recent outage Microsoft suffered with its Hotmail and Office 365 suite has raised some concerns across the industry. The concern stems from the fact that many have been pushing the Cloud as a way to avoid such outages.
Office 365, Microsoft’s answer to Google Apps, suffered an outage this week that interrupted access to the service. According to reports Microsoft is working to rectify the issue by offering credit to compensate for the outage.
Nonprofits need up to date technology just like other businesses do. Unlike other businesses however, they don’t have a lot of cash lying around for such items. Most nonprofits use donations to provide services and pay for the people to run them. Shelling out hundreds or thousands of dollars for software that makes their programs run more smoothly is not in the budget’s of most nonprofits, at least not these days.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that its new cloud office suite was now available. According to the company, “It brings together Office, SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync in an always-up-to-date cloud service.” There are different monthly subscription levels depending on the size of your enterprise.
For those of you trying to figure out where all your time goes and why you are not more productive, Microsoft has an application for you called Calendar Analytics. The application is being given away free today in honor of Administrative Professional’s day.
Microsoft has a new cloud computing setup called Office 365, and it was just released in public beta. Along with Office 365 is Office 365 Marketplace that offers additional apps and services for use with the program.
Microsoft and Google are at it again, this time fighting over a major government contract. Previously, Google lost a contract to implement its email system across 88,000 employees for the U.S. Department of Interior. Things are heating up as the two giants duke it out for this high profile contract.
Microsoft has been working on its cloud computing products and marketing for a while now. In the crowded cloud of Google Docs, Zoho, Yahoo, Rackspace, Salesforce and Amazon to name a few, Microsoft is banking on its name and proven desktop solutions to bring in cloud computing sales. So far it is working.
According to reports Microsoft may be in for another big corporate shakeup which may be announced this month. This comes only a few months after a major reshuffling back in October.
Microsoft claims La Familia is selling bootleg copies of Office, and the company is using this to show how counterfeiting and piracy is a more serious problem than many people believe.
Despite various commentators warning Microsoft’s latest financial results wouldn’t be great, the opposite is true.
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