Microsoft and the semantic web
Microsoft and Creative Commons announced last week the release of the Ontology Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 that will enable authors to easily add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers. Share on Facebook
Good positive Microsoft press on web services
Would recommend trying out the mesh (www.mesh.com).
To Open Source or not to Open Source
Dennis Byron's excellent post, 'Why Companies "Turn to Open Source Software"', rings many bells with me. Sometimes as implementation consultants (primarily using Microsoft business solutions), in our case, we are tempted to question whether we'd be better off implementing open source code with clients – potentially more to spend with us, as theconsultants, if no [...]
Frustrated with Microsoft Search
As someone who has tried Microsoft's live search – what is the point? Are they looking to provide a product to match google? Or have they given up? Danny Sullivan certainly does not pull any punches in his comments (tough love for Microsoft Search). Share on Facebook
BI developments with MS
Johan Pellicaan's post re developments on the BI front at Microsoft are very much to the point. Looks like very exciting opportunities on the BI front – with SharePoint now becoming supercharged with lots of BI functionality at a potentially very attractive price point. In many ways this looks like the shakeup in BI that [...]
Using up your online ‘cred’
I think Microsoft have done a nice job in their upgrades/ fixes to Live. However I think they face major challenges in trying to establish significant presence as a 'social network' partner. My own experience to date has been that having an established presence with Linkedin, Facebook and Plaxo – people do not want to [...]
What’s in azure right now?
Attended great presentation by David Chappell at Microsoft in Dublin this morning. Fascinating comparison of the offerings from SalesForce, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. Interesting explanation of Microsoft's focus on providing a platform in this version of Azure to enable us to build the next 'Facebook'. Explained why cannot migrate classic enterprise applications to this Azure [...]
Microsoft in the cloud
The announcements around azure (www.azure.com) certainly seem to place MS firmly in the cloud – or should I say with a firm presence both on the ground and in the cloud(s). Not before time. The challenge from the likes of google apps continues to gather momentum. And the economic slow down certainly asks of IT [...]
SharePoint accessible for so many
The current Microsoft offering includes WSS 3.0 in the license for Windows Server 2003 or Small Business Server. So companies have the opportunity to deploy basic Sharepoint for no additional license cost. And, afterwards, the company can migrate to MOSS. Share on Facebook
Getting started with SharePoint
Microsoft have delivered potentially gamebreaking software with MOSS 2007. But pity the organisations taking delivery of MOSS 2007. Classically business has a problem or an opportunity and looks to IT (and others) for a solution. So, we want a document management system or we want a portal to publish information to our employees or whatever. [...]