No Microsoft Office for iPhones or Android devices until 2014

Steve Ballmer presenting the new Office Don’t expect to see an iPhone or Android compatible app for Microsoft Office until 2014. AFPRelaxnews pic A LEAKED copy of Microsoft’s product roadmap suggests that non-Windows Phone users are going to have a very long wait if they want Office on their smartphones or…

Posted on: April 14, 2013 9:00 am

Microsoft’s new world view: Play nice with Apple, Google

Microsoft’s latest, coolest apps are designed for Windows 8, but also work seamlessly on Apple and Android mobile devices. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gives his presentation at the launch of Microsoft Windows 8 in New York last October.(Photo: Richard Drew, AP)Story HighlightsSoftware titan finds new religion: Platform agnosticityBing and Xbox features…

Posted on: April 14, 2013 9:00 am

Minnesota SharePoint User Group Celebrates 100th Meeting

Since starting in 2004, the group has had over 2,500 attendees from over 500 organizations in Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG) reaches a milestone by celebrating its 100th meeting. Started in May of 2004 by the SharePoint team at Inetium (now Avtex), the MNSPUG was one of the first…

Posted on: April 14, 2013 9:00 am

Computing Columnist: Hotmail is finally hot again

I opened a Hotmail account today. And I said it out loud. Not too long ago, someone published a list of the hierarchy of email addresses, from the best (your own domain) to the worst (probably Hotmail). Though I have to admit that when Hotmail first came out, it being…

Posted on: April 13, 2013 7:00 pm

Check out this colorful mockup for a possible future version of Gmail on Android

Gmail got a makeover a few weeks ago on the iOS edition of the software, but Android’s version has been using a pretty standard UI for some time now. Looking to give it a little more flair, a designer from Brooklyn has given his take on what a new Gmail…

Posted on: April 13, 2013 7:00 pm

SharePoint or No, Organizations Need to Rethink Approach to Records …

In the last post, I called it like I seen it: SharePoint out of the box can’t do records management. 2007, 2010, 2013 none of ’em left to their own devices are worth much when it comes to automating the retention and (more importantly) disposition of your records according to But as if…

Posted on: April 13, 2013 7:00 pm

WhatsApp said to have rebuffed $1bn bid from Google for messaging app

Buying WhatsApp could accelerate the Google+ service by adding an already popular messaging element. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Google has reportedly had a $1bn bid to buy the smartphone messaging system WhatsApp rebuffed as it tries to expand its grasp of the chat market. The search giant said…

Posted on: April 13, 2013 7:00 pm

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Posted on: April 13, 2013 2:00 pm

ABB Selects Microsoft Office 365 Analyst Blog

The world’s largest software maker Microsoft Corp. ( MSFT ) announced that power and automation technology major, ABB Ltd. ( ABB ) chose to deploy its Office 365 and Yammer social network service in its offices globally. The reason for deploying the Office software and Yammer is to equip ABB with advanced technologies involving the…

Posted on: April 13, 2013 2:00 pm

Microsoft’s Office for iOS, Android: Not until fall 2014?

An alleged roadmap for Microsoft’s coming ‘Gemini’ wave of Office updates, if accurate, indicates Microsoft’s Office for iOS and Android — as well as Outlook for Windows RT — may be further away than many hoped and expected. A source of mine shared what appears to me to be a…

Posted on: April 13, 2013 2:00 pm