By Alpa Agarwal Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 . In this article...

By Cliff Reeves For start-ups, BizSpark and Microsoft StartupZone enable entrepreneurs to access the development tools, advice and exposure they need at a time when they are most valuable and least affordable—during their first three years. But...

By Cliff Reeves Yesterday’s post, BizSpark 101 , discussed why we developed BizSpark, what’s in it, how to get it and the key BizSpark roles: Microsoft Champs, Network Partners, and Startups. Today I’ll go into a little more detail...

By Cliff Reeves For the past year or so I’ve been working with a team at Microsoft on a project named BizSpark , which we launched worldwide starting on Nov 5th, 2008. BizSpark is the second in a family of programs designed for early-stage...

By Cliff Reeves The debate over IBM vs Microsoft collaboration market share flared up again. IBM issued a press release ahead of Lotusphere that claims significant market share gains for Notes and Domino. Early versions of the press release also...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation Last week I sat down with Deborah Gage of the San Francisco Chronicle. We talked about how I came to work at Microsoft and what my mission here is,...

By Cliff Reeves There was a thought-provoking and balanced post on this subject on ChannelWeb Tuesday. It makes the point that Sharepoint's growth and adoption mirrors that of Lotus Notes in the nineties. Like Notes, Sharepoint provides an easily...

By Cliff Reeves CNet reported just a few hours ago (09:30 PDT Sunday) on the International Standards Organization vote on approving the Office Open XML specification as ISO standard DIS 29500: Early reports Sunday indicate that Office Open...

By Cliff Reeves The ISO vote on OOXML closes at midnight CET tonight. It's been a divisive topic , and while browsing for the last-minute volleys on the subject, I happened on this debate . It is mostly a one-sided set of rants about how much IBM...

By Cliff Reeves Interesting article on the OOXML saga on Internet.com yesterday, but the piece that caught my eye was this one from Patrick Durusau, who is chairperson of the technical committee advising the U.S. governing board. Interestingly...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation After John Shinal and I talked in late November, we followed up with another short talk about “lessons learned” and advice for startups...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation Late last year, I spoke with Andy Plesser , founder and CEO of Beet.tv, about Microsoft’s IPTV efforts and how they related to startups in particular...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation In late November, I spoke to John Shinal at Vator.tv about the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program and other ways that the Emerging Business Team...

By Cliff Reeves IBM Announced 10% revenue growth in the 4th quarter of 20007. 6% of the growth came from currency fluctuations (as the value of overseas income rose in dollar terms due to the dollar's decline). In other words, 4% is a better measure...

By Cliff Reeves Two friends of mine (Michelle and John) recently launched a new service called Outshouts . While it’s early days yet (the site’s only been up a couple of weeks), it shows a lot of interesting potential. Outshouts lets...

By Cliff Reeves An update on earlier posts comparing jobs for the two leading enterprise collaboration platforms: IBM's Notes, Domino and Workplace products vs Microsoft's Sharepoint and Exchange. Comments and caveats: It's only one country...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation This November I gave a keynote address at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco. Later I chatted with Andy Plesser, founder and CEO of Beet.tv,...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation On Wednesday, November 7th, The Tech Museum Awards honored the use of technology to improve the quality of life for people around the globe. The gala...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation In October, I was interviewed by Om Malik and Joyce Kim about my role in Silicon Valley and how Microsoft works with startups. Some highlights from...

By Cliff Reeves A recent request from a startup company looking for Sharepoint partners reminded me of a site that I had meant to blog about some time ago, and just forgot. Sharepoint, like any platform, is intimately associated with partners of...

By Cliff Reeves I made my first trip to Israel the week of Oct 15th, and spoke at the VC Summit on the morning of the17th. The event was coordinated and planned by my colleague, Barak Shein . The morning session was limited to VCs and then opened...

By Cliff Reeves Redbend http://www.redbend.com/ … Redbend provides tools for remote management of mobile software on mass market handsets, specializing in firmware: FOTA (firmware over the air). This is a highly specialized and demanding area...

By Cliff Reeves Starhome http://www.starhome.com/ … Starhome is a mature (established late 1999) and very-well funded firm with over 120 MNO customers worldwide., and a very close relationship with Vodaphone. They are attempting to bridge...

By Cliff Reeves I'm always fascinated by businesses that break old paradigms, and I was introduced to BrightSpot by someone I met by chance at a party on Lake Washington last month. BrightSpot media attempts to increase the value of internet advertising...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation On August 15, 2007, I was interviewed by Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher —Reporting on the business and culture of Silicon...