Microsoft Corp has launched Microsoft Office 365 in. The product is a next generation cloud productivity service for businesses of all sizes . Businesses can try it for free for 30 days by signing up at www.office365.com or from Microsoft’s 31 leading local Nigerian service providers, which will integrate Office 365 with The…

You’re the chief executive of NewsGator, a key Microsoft partner in enterprise social software. You’ve just been named a Microsoft Globally Managed Partner. And both of your key product lines contain the words "for SharePoint" in their names. Yeah, that’s the software most industry execs think Microsoft is going to…

Google announced that Gmail now has 425 Million users at its annual Google I/O developer conference today. It’s being used by government agencies in 45 states and 66 of the top 100 universities in the U.S. have already gone Google. Google also announced that over 5 million businesses have now Google’s Sundar Pichai…

REDMOND, Wash., June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –In an effort to take control of a paper-filing system that generated approximately 1 million pages per year, the San Diego County Juvenile Justice stakeholders — probation department, district attorney and public defender — adopted a custom content management and workflow solution The juvenile court’s…

STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe battle for voters kicked into high gear after Supreme Court health care reform rulingDemocrats netted a political win but now have to explain and defend lawRepublicans will attack "Obamacare" as a tax increaseWith hundreds of millions being spent in campaign, voter fatigue a big risk Washington (CNN) –…

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Yammer, a maker of cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) software, for $1.2 billion in cash, a deal rumored to be in the works for the past week and a half. Yammer, which was founded in 2008, will continue to be led by its CEO David Sacks ESN…

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 rollup update 3 provides Exchange administrators with 42 bug fixes plus RPC client access cross-site connectivity changes that customers have waited for. Rollup 3 When you register, you’ll also receive targeted alerts from my team of editorial writers and independent industry experts with the latest news, tips, and advice…

A: This question has a really easy answer: Yes. And it comes with an interesting example. By default, the search settings in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007 use yellow highlight to show your found search terms in the results. This setting can be configured within Outlook 2010 by selecting File, Figure 1 shows Figure…

Yammer provides features — similar to those found on Facebook Inc. — to more than 200,000 companies such as Ford Motor Co. and EBay Inc. The purchase will help Microsoft compete with corporate-social features like Salesforce.com Inc.’s Chatter product, as well as startups such as Jive Software Inc. and Asana…

Microsoft has made no secret of its newfound love for a touch interface (I’m assuming we are ignoring Windows for Pen Computing and Windows XP Tablet as pretty much everyone else did). It is the standout feature for the majority of its latest product offerings. Keeping in Touch Last week’s…