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  • Your Business in the Cloud, the Control in Your Hands

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the availability of Office 365 , Microsoft’s next generation productivity service. It brings together Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service...

  • 4 links addressing Office 365 for the Enterprise

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up—share your links in the...

  • Keeping Up with Generation Z

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    I am constantly amazed at how effortlessly my son uses technology. By the time he was 3, he was already programming our TIVO. By the time he was 5, he was playing games on my smartphone. Now he’s 8, and he knows his way around my Windows Phone 7...

  • Putting the Brakes on Server Sprawl

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Every time I climb into my car, I’m stunned to observe the increased sprawl across the Seattle area. Seattle has always been a city of freeways. But over time, more roads have been built and more highways widened to accommodate the city’s...

  • 3 Examples of Leveraging the Cloud for Enterprise Productivity

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up—share your links in the...

  • Four Links Addressing the Challenges of Moving to the Cloud

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up—share your links in the...

  • Are Your Mobile Workers Stuck at the Station?

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    If you have any doubt about just how dramatically today’s workforce is changing, think about this: just two years from now, one-third of the world’s workforce will be mobile. That’s nearly 1.2 billion people working outside of the...

  • The First and Best Customer of Our Own Products

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Today we are featuring a guest blog post from Tony Scott, our CIO at Microsoft. One of the best things about being the CIO at Microsoft is helping the company develop great products for our customers. The Microsoft IT organization is Microsoft’s...

  • Weekly Enterprise Business Productivity Digest - 6/10/2011

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up—share your links in the...

  • Value is What You Get

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    As Warren Buffett famously said, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” But what is value when it comes to business productivity software? Simply put, it’s achieving the highest possible productivity for your organization...

  • Using Consumer Technology to Boost Enterprise Productivity

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Today we are featuring a guest blog post from Tony Scott, our CIO at Microsoft. Tony will be sharing his perspective of how the consumerization of IT can boost productivity. I’m old enough to remember when we used the expression, “I’m...

  • Weekly Business Productivity Digest - 6/3/2011

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Five links to help answer questions about Security in the Cloud Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions...

  • Today’s Enterprise Business Challenges – Get Ready…

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    When I was in college, I didn’t like to write papers, and often procrastinated until the last minute. By last minute, I don’t mean the night before. I mean just a couple hours before the paper was due. Sure, I’d spend all week stressing...

  • Core CAL Changes: What They Mean for the Enterprise

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    We recently changed our Core Client Access License (CAL) here at Microsoft. Mary-Jo Foley wrote an insightful article on ZDNet about these changes – thank you Mary-Jo for helping us all understand the changes. For those of you who are not familiar...

  • Weekly Business Productivity Digest - 5/27/2011

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Five unique perspectives on the shift to cloud computing Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions...

  • We’ve Come a Long Way

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    As Loretta Lynn once said, “We’ve come a long way, baby.” When I think back to what it was like when I first entered the workforce compared to today, it is a different world. Believe it or not, my roots are in IT – I started...

  • Weekly Business Productivity Digest - 5/13/2011

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    This is a collection of interesting articles, blog posts, etc from around the web related to Cloud, Technology, Leadership, CIOs and the Enterprise. In addition to our own content, the goal is to showcase the variety of conversations occurring around...

  • No More Stuffing Your Software Under Your Mattress!

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Ever hear the stories of people stuffing their money under their mattress? As strange as it may sound, people actually thought that was the safest place for their money 80 years ago. I must admit, this didn’t sound like a bad idea to me two years...

  • Evaluating the True Cost-Value of Office 365

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    After my wife spent an afternoon shoe shopping, she came home with a pair of “must have” designer shoes. “Do you like them?” she asked. “Yes,” I replied, as she pulled them out of her Nordstrom shopping bag. I cringed...

  • Weekly Business Productivity Digest - 5/6/2011

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    This is a collection of interesting articles, blog posts, etc from around the web related to Cloud, Technology, Leadership, CIOs and the Enterprise. In addition to our own content, the goal is to showcase the variety of conversations occurring around...

  • Five Things Every CIO Should Know About the Cloud and Office 365

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Today’s guest blog post is from Andrew Kisslo, Group Manager, on the Office 365 team. He provides insight into what CIOs should know about the cloud, and specifically Office 365. With the recent release of the Microsoft Office 365 public beta...

  • Helping Enterprises Attain WOW!

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    I recently re-read, Tom Peters’ book ,“The Pursuit of WOW!” in which he talks about WOW as stepping up and standing out with a sense of uniqueness. At Microsoft, our goal has always been to help businesses not just pursue WOW, but to...

  • Weekly Business Productivity Digest - 4/29/2011

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    This is a collection of interesting articles, blog posts, etc from around the web related to Cloud, Technology, Leadership, CIOs and the Enterprise. In addition to our own content, the goal is to showcase the variety of conversations occurring around...

  • One Size Does NOT Fit All

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Since the start of this year, I have been suffering from something I have termed “Cricflu.” For fans and followers of the sport of Cricket, this won’t be much of a surprise, since it was the year of the World Cup. India’s victory...

  • A Rock-Solid Business Case

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    For years, a friend of mine owned the same old, 28-inch CRT television set. Whenever I’d go over to his house, I’d tease him about it. “Why don’t you upgrade?” I’d ask, shaking my head at his outdated tube. His answer...