SharePoint is widely lauded for its sites-based intranet and extranet capabilities, which allow users to share virtually anything with coworkers, partners, and others. Less well known, however, is SharePoint's related functionality for managing...
Tipped off by my new Windows Weekly cohost Mary Jo Foley, I spent much of today enjoying "Gmail Man," an absolutely fantastic internal Microsoft sales video that, quick frankly, should be adapted into commercials for mainstream TV.
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Like many of you, I have multiple email accounts. Like some of you, I have far too many email accounts. And in keeping with my desire to simplify wherever possible, I've been thinking a lot about the best way to consolidate these accounts into...
Microsoft announced today that its free (and excellent) photo editing and management solution, Windows Live Photo Gallery, can be updated with a free codec pack to support many popular RAW file formats. These formats are used by high-end (and even...
Microsoft today released an update to its popular OneNote Mobile app for iPhone, bringing the version number up to 1.2 as it adds some new features and new international availability. According to the company, updated features in OneNote Mobile...
As is the norm these days, I woke up to some insanity in the Technology section of The New York Times. A column credited to two writers from Reuters Breakingviews recommends that Microsoft sell off its Bing online search engine, which has become ...
Microsoft on Friday issued a blog post describing how well it's Office for Mac 2011 productivity suite works with the recently released Mac OS X "Lion." Suffice to say, there are a few issues...
In the wake of a recent Dropbox security snafu, I made my case for Windows Live Mesh, which I find to be better for my PC-to-PC (and PC-to-cloud) file syncing needs. But Windows Live Mesh isn't just for Windows-based PCs, despite its (somewhat...
Microsoft has an interesting blog post on Inside Windows Live that explains how mobile developers can access information in Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, and SkyDrive from Windows Phone, Android, and iOS apps. This occurs through Microsoft's...
In late 2005, Microsoft announced the formation of its Windows Live division, which would integrate online services and applications that were previously branded with MSN more closely with its core Windows products. (I examined MSN in a previous...