1038 Articles match "Microsoft"

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WWD Reader Profile: Maurice Cherry, Designer/Blogger/Entrepreneur
I’m still pretty old school on project management, though — I use Microsoft Project , a Moleskine and a Marvy Uchida LePen . WebWorkerDaily readers are a diverse bunch. Every week, I profile a different reader and ask them to share what they do, how they do it, and some of their favorite hints and tips. Who are you and what do you do? My
Web Worker Daily - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Microsoft Got Hand(s)
s a very big year for Microsoft, in terms of the initiatives the company is launching, in particular in the consumer space (its business/commercial space is already cranking out tons of products, but the company’s focus on consumer products has hit a tipping point). Recall three of the major trends that I predicted for 2010: One, that someone will create an open gaming platform; two, that Microsoft will take second place in search share (from Yahoo); and three, that we’ll see a major advance in the user interface of the web. From my Friday Signal over at FM's blog : ....It’s
John Battelle's Searchblog - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Zoho Show Update Adds Slide Transitions and Publishing Enhancements
Zoho recently launched an update to Zoho Show , its online presentations tool and Microsoft PowerPoint competitor. This new update ups the game against SlideRocket , Google Docs, Acrobat.com Presentations (part of Acrobat.com , covered here ), and the soon-to-launch Microsoft PowerPoint Web App by adding thirty slide transitions, and improved import and export of PowerPoint presentations (including support for its slide transitions). There are also new advanced options on Zoho Show’s “Publish” menu for sizing embedded presentations, which should prove welcome if you are wanting to integrate Zoho Show presentations on your blog or web site.
Web Worker Daily - Friday, March 19, 2010
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  • Microsoft Image Composite Editor Stitches Images Together
    Windows only: Microsofts' Image Composite Editor is a free application for stitching several pictures together into one panoramic photograph. For a one-off tool with very specific goals, Microsoft's done this one right. NET 2.0. Image Composite Editor [Microsoft via Life Rocks 2.0 We've already shown you how to stitch photos into panoramas with free software or with Photoshop's Photomerge tool , but the dedicated Image Composite Editor won't cost you a dime, is dead simple to use, and works really well. I
    Linked Intelligence - Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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  • Excel Chart Advisor Suggests the Best Layouts for Your Data
    See below for a video demonstration of Chart Advisor's features. Chart Advisor [Microsoft Office Labs via Lifehacker AU Windows only: Chart Advisor, a free plug-in for Excel 2007, takes the guess-and-hope element out of making your spreadsheet data presentable. The plug-in adds a single button to Excel's "Insert" toolbar, and clicking it brings up a window with the Advisor's recommended layouts, ranked in order of relevance.
    Linked Intelligence - Friday, September 26, 2008
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  • E2.0 Conference: Social Computing Platforms (IBM & Microsoft)
    Specifically, the tutorial I moderated on Monday that featured IBM and Microsoft. For this event, I proposed a tutorial that would allow attendees to learn more about the social computing platforms from IBM and Microsoft from a user adoption perspective rather than a "plumbing" or infrastructure viewpoint. worked with IBM and Microsoft in the months preceding the event. I wanted to share some background information on the tutorial presented at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference .
    Column Two - Thursday, June 19, 2008
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  • Microsoft Social Computing Overview
    Microsoft design point is to co-mingle structured collaboration tools alongside social computing tools - it's unrealistic to think of social computing disconnected from collaborations strategies Microsoft also thinks of the IT Pro ... Microsoft believes SharePoint scales to meet as narrow or broad a view an organization has on social computing, you can use it in a very classic Notes from Christian Finn, Director, Social Computing 13 sessions in "social track"
    Collaborative Thinking - Monday, October 19, 2009
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  • Microsoft Phone Data Manager Syncs Your Phone Wirelessly
    Windows only: Microsoft's free Phone Data Manager syncs contacts, music, pictures, and videos between your phone and your desktop and the web. Microsoft Phone Data Manager syncs over USB or Bluetooth, and Microsoft has published a list of supported and unsupported phones . We don't have a supported phone on hand, so let's hear how it works for you in the comments. Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta [via Life Rocks 2.0 More specifically, the contacts are synced to the internet with Windows Live (meaning you'll need a Windows Live login), and the media is synced with any folder you choose on your desktop.
    Linked Intelligence - Friday, September 12, 2008
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  • Microsoft's Maturing Social Computing "EGO"
    When Microsoft first released Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), it touted the platform advantages of its embedded social computing capabilities (i.e., Microsoft countered by delivering the Community Kit Edition via CodePlex which improved the default capabilities within MOSS. However, three concerns arose: (1) the source code on CodePlex is not supported by Microsoft, (2) the code does not go through Note: updated with source references for EGO integration examples. blogs, wikis, RSS, social networking).
    Column Two - Sunday, June 22, 2008
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  • Make Microsoft Outlook More Social
    While my first impressions of the next version of Microsoft Office, Office 2010, were quite positive , I did have one major disappointment. Why didn’t Microsoft make Outlook 2010 more social? Even though Microsoft hasn’t officially added support for social media to the next version of the app, you can customize Outlook 2007 and add social features yourself. I was hoping that the venerable email application would gain support for social media.
    Web Worker Daily - Friday, July 31, 2009
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  • Lifehacker Confessions: The Tips and Tricks I'm Not Using
    I'm pretty much useless with Microsoft Office I majored in English at college and write for a living, but if you asked me how to divide a Word document into two columns and separate them with gray space, I'd need about 20 minutes to Google and poke around. Reading Lifehacker can inspire you to reboot your computer habits, your workflow, your workspace, and even your home life. Believe me, I should know.
    Linked Intelligence - Friday, October 10, 2008
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  • Microsoft's Unified Communications Predictions
    I thought I would offer some comments on some UC predictions offered by Gurdeep Singh Pall, who heads Microsoft's UC group: No Jitter | Microsoft: Gurdeep's UC Predictions single identity with presence at the core is spot on - but it makes you wonder why Microsoft does not openly share its rich presence information? 1. UC gets unified The term "unified communications" has long been muddled and miss-used, and the problem is made worse by vendors who slap a "unified" label on products that are anything but.
    Collaborative Thinking - Thursday, January 8, 2009
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  • Collaborative Thinking: Social Networking (?) With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
    With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Interesting - but I remain quite skeptical - especially regarding "MOSS 2007 as your default option for enabling and managing social networks for business use". This situation can influence decision-making - people may prefer to evolve with Microsoft over the next couple of years as they figure this space out - especially for internal deployments. Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta
    mikeg.typepad.com - Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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