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• Extend your networking reach with social apps for Office

  15 Apr 2013

  Social apps can make working with Office 2013 more engaging, efficient, and fun. They combine the networking and outreach capabilities of social media sites with the mobile productivity power of Office. Together, Office and social apps give you more insight into your contacts, allow you to monitor your...
• Get started with Business Intelligence in the new Office

  3 Apr 2013

  This post is brought to you by Seayoung Rhee, Product Marketing Manager in the SharePoint Product Marketing Group. Reliable business intelligence and insight are key to a thriving business. Excel, SharePoint and Office 365 make business intelligence (BI) in the new Office more accessible to everyone...
• Microsoft acquiring Prodiance, ERM software specialists

  7 Jun 2011

  Spreadsheets and data are key to many organizations' operations, yet they are oftentimes created in uncontrolled environments. Today we took another step in helping customers mitigate this risk and improve data compliance and control. Microsoft has acquired Prodiance , a leading provider of Enterprise...
• Corporate "Facebook"? My Sites in SharePoint 2010

  3 Jun 2011

  Post #3 in our Ten Days of Office anniversary series is about how My Sites in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 helps colleagues work together. Read SharePoint team Director Christian Finn's 5 tips for implementing My Sites in your organization. Here's an excerpt from his post on the SharePoint Team Blog : ...
• Office and SharePoint 2010 SP1 coming end of June

  16 May 2011

  We're almost there: Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is on track for release in all language versions at the end of June. Here are few of the features and improvements SP1 will bring to Office 2010, according to today's announcement : Integrated community content in the Access Application...
• The 96 languages of Office 2010 and Windows 7

  21 Feb 2011

  Could you name 96 languages on a bet? That's how many languages Office 2010 and Windows 7 support, from Yoruba to Afrikaans, and from Quechua to Basque. What with localized products, language packs, and language interface packs, sorting through the possible configurations can get complex, so in honor...
• Ahem. Care to share with the whole class? Giving personality to information (video)

  9 Dec 2010

  Do you want people to listen to you? For a long time, the classic schoolroom model governed how we received information. Some authority figure would speak from a lectern, or an actor in a doctor's lab coat would talk on the television, and listeners, sitting attentively and still, would (supposedly)...
• Overloaded and working from everywhere: This week's Did You Know?

  17 May 2010

  Ready for more productivity factoids? Here's the wrap on this week's Did You Know program: 33.7M people in the US telecommute at least 1 day a month. Information overload costs US companies $900B a year in lost productivity. More than 7M people have downloaded Office 2010 beta products. (Way more--latest...
• Visio SharePoint 2010 workflow "makes great solutions simple" : Day 3 of 10 Office MVPs

  14 May 2010

  The following is a guest post by SharePoint Server MVP Brian Farnell from Australia. This post is part of the MVP Award Program Blog's series, "10 Days for Office 2010." The ability to create custom workflows for data was one of the great wins in the previous release of SharePoint Server, and in the...
• The workplace is changing rapidly, and Office is ready

  10 May 2010

  Guest blogger Kelby Johnson is updating us today on Office's Did You Know program. One week in and the reception to the Did You Know (DYK) conversation has been great. We're very pleased to see so many of you engaged. As Takeshi Numoto pointed out last Monday, the idea of the program is to engage you...
• MVP Summit: Access deployed via the web = No more IT headaches

  27 Apr 2010

  At the recent MVP Summit, Access MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Albert Kallal discusses web databases, the big new feature of Access 2010. Essentially, the web becomes another way of deploying applications, one that doesn't require that users have Access installed--but it gets better if they do. With...
• Get a SharePoint make-over

  18 Mar 2010

  This is March Rogers, Design Lead for office.com. This week I've been attending a web design conference in Las Vegas. One of the hot topics is the ability to change the colors, fonts, layout and pretty much everything else on a SharePoint site. Since I read recently that 61% of companies surveyed by...
• Office 2010 coming May 12 for businesses worldwide, June for everyone

  5 Mar 2010

  Ta da! Starting May 12, business customers worldwide will be able to buy Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, along with Visio 2010 and Project 2010. And everyone will be able to buy them in June. RTM is in April, which means the work is done and the product is "released to manfacturing". In other words...
• Look Up Information From Your Phone

  2 Mar 2010

  A few weeks back we went through an overview of mobility scenarios in the post Mobility in Office 2010 . Today’s post describes how to search and look up information on SharePoint web sites with your mobile phones. There are various investments in SharePoint Read More...
• Productivity + social media = goodness for the workplace

  25 Feb 2010

  Over the last few weeks we've heard loads of "buzz" about infusing social media services into productivity apps. From Google's Buzz to Salesforce.com's Chatter to our own Outlook Social Connector , user demand for connecting the productivity tools they know and love with social networking apps they increasingly...
• Opera and SharePoint Part 2: End user training resources

  15 Feb 2010

  In our ongoing saga of the Seattle Opera and SharePoint, we turn to a variation of the old Zen conundrum: What if you install a new system and nobody uses it? As with anything, it's possible to revert to old habits and just recreate the same old work-arounds. Which is not good. The Opera folks have a...
• Follow the Seattle Opera's switch to SharePoint

  2 Feb 2010

  The scene: A conference table in Seattle Opera's Information Systems department, epicenter of their move to SharePoint and a better way of working. We're surrounded by a life-sized fake horse named Thor, a cherub wearing sunglasses and a fright wig, a server rack with a kazillion wires sticking out of...
• Office Casual: How to put the share into SharePoint

  13 Jul 2009

  I was in your shoes: two years ago in another company, SharePoint was installed. Now what? Here's what I wish I knew then: easy ways to share information with SharePoint. Below are some other references to help you dive in. --Doug Thomas Office Casual: How to put the share into SharePoint SharePoint...
• Make your SharePoint pages pop with the Content Editor Web Part

  25 Jun 2009

  I spend a lot of time managing and updating Web pages on our internal Microsoft Office SharePoint Web site. MOSS is great for displaying lists, libraries, and calendars of shared items and events using Web parts. When I first starting creating pages, though, it wasn’t clear to me how to do things like...
• No Foolin'; SharePoint Designer now a free download

  2 Apr 2009

  Lots of rumors out there about SharePoint Designer. But's its true, the tool to make your SharePoint sites come alive and customized is a free download starting today. So if your company has SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services, you can starting playing in the sandbox with a new toy...