I often argue that Microsoft's biggest strength, its ability to create enduring platforms, can also be its biggest weakness: It seems that every time the software giant tackles a problem, it hides in a hole until it can emerge months or even years...
Microsoft Plays Its Strongest Office 2010 Card: SharePoint
With Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 launching this week and Exchange 2010 hitting general availability on November 9, you may think I'd be a bit preoccupied. OK, well, there'...
Outlook PST: Open for Business
Say what you will about Microsoft's nonsensically named PST format--it?s the data format behind Outlook Personal Folders, according to Microsoft--but for hundreds of millions of people around the world, it...
Although I laud Microsoft for the work it's doing with its unified communications (UC) products, I've always had a slightly unsettled feeling about the complexity and cost of these solutions. Sure, a typical enterprise will have the resources and...
Office Web Applications: Is It Enough?
Last week, Microsoft finally shipped a pre-release version of its long-overdue Office Web Applications to a small group of external testers. It's hard to overstate how disappointing this release is...
