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PaaS and the innovation opportunities

Unlike what the development world experienced with emergence of two leading platform vendors, and up until recently a third with the widespread adoption of open source, cloud-based platforms, or PaaS - platform as a service, has yet to be dominated by...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2008 10:23 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: PaaS, McKinsey platform war, coghead, software2008, webex, amazon, bungee labs, salesforce, platform as a service, opsource

Announcing the First Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit

[Cross-posted from Zach Rosenfield's blog .] It's with great excitement that I get to be the first to announce the initial release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit ! Since shipping SharePoint back in November of 2006 we've...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2008 5:50 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Deployment, Tools, Administration, Governance, Alerts

Enterprise Mashups - the longtail of IT applications

I'm on day two of Software 2008 and the SaaS, PaaS, SOA and Enterprise 2.0 themes couldn't be louder. In terms of Enterprise 2.0, mashups & integration are the emerging topics to explore. On the heels of Web 2.0 Expo in SF last week, where...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2008 3:18 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Web 2.0, Mashup, SaaS, Enterprise 2.0, Denodo, enterprise mashup, mashup market, Kapow, Serena Software, application development, longtail, Jackbe, PaaS

Enterprise Mashups - the "longtail" of IT applications

I'm on day two of Software 2008 and the SaaS, PaaS, SOA and Enterprise 2.0 themes couldn't be louder. In terms of Enterprise 2.0, mashups & integration are the emerging topics to explore. On the heels of Web 2.0 Expo in SF last week, where...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2008 3:18 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Web 2.0, Mashup, SaaS, Enterprise 2.0, Denodo, enterprise mashup, mashup market, Kapow, Serena Software, application development, longtail, Jackbe, PaaS

Metering Cloud Computing

One of my favorite quotes from the book Fooled by Randomness is Wittgenstein's Rule : Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table, you may as well be using the table to measure the ruler. I believe...

Published Wed, Apr 30 2008 1:18 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: IIS, S+S, Windows Live, Office Live, SkyTap, SatoriTech, DeskTone

Where Are They Now—SourceCode (K2)

Sourcecode (K2) REDMOND, WASHINGTON www.scth.com K2 Snags 1,500 Customers in 42 Countries—20 percent of the Fortune 100 K2 (a division of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc.) says it is changing the way people use software. In 1997, it...

Published Tue, Apr 29 2008 2:59 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Meet the Exchange team!

During Terry's keynote on INTERACT2008 conference, we showed a 5 minute video that introduces some of the members of the Exchange Team and gives some insight into what they do. We figured that some of you might be interested in seeing it too so it...

Published Tue, Apr 29 2008 12:21 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Microsoft, Community, History

How We Did It - Tag Driven Information Architecture using MOSS 2007 for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport

Background About a year ago, Provoke (a Microsoft Gold Certified partner based in New Zealand) worked with the New Zealand Ministry of Transport to complete the second phase of their corporate intranet. In addition to being proven successful within the...

Published Tue, Apr 29 2008 11:48 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Community, Customer Evidence, Search, Content types, Taxonomy, Metadata, Tagging

Alltop - all the top stories from Guy Kawasaki

The post I just wrote about Start-UP Media in New Zealand got 25 views in a few minutes. One from a ping back (comment below) and one from Alltop.com -- Guy Kawasaki's new site that covers all the Top Stories. The MicrosoftStartupZone is a site they...

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 7:21 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

ReMIX in Silicon Valley -- Silverlight shines

ReMIX08 turned out to be a great conversation two weeks ago at our Silicon Valley campus. Scott Guthrie led off with a session on Silverlight peppered with lots of sexy demos. Sam Ramji led a thought-provoking panel on “what does open” mean, and the day...

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 6:14 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Silverlight, innovation, MIX08

Starting up a Nation -- New Zealand

Recently, we received a request from New Zealand to repost a blog by Don Dodge. We discovered a cool company in New Zealand that is helping start-ups in New Zealand succeed in the global online space. It's interesting how many similar and also creative...

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 5:53 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Partnering, Tips for Startups

Announcing the launch of OfficeLabs.com - powered by MOSS 2007

[ Cross-posted from the Office Labs team blog . Look for exciting announcements of joint projects from Office Labs and the SharePoint product group in the near future! <Lawrence />] "Welcome to Microsoft Office Labs ." It's great to...

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 3:03 PM by Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Filed under: Office Business Apps, Partners

Where Are They Now—K2 Revisited

K2 REDMOND, WASHINGTON www.k2.com K2 Snags 1,500 Customers in 42 Countries—20 percent of the Fortune 100 K2 (a division of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc.) says it is changing the way people use software. In 1997, it set out to build a better workflow...

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 3:00 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Why Microsoft?, Where Are They Now, Startup Superstars, Sourcecode, K2

Content Feedback: BRING IT ON

Intro or Why you should give feedback The Exchange User Education team has been working hard over the last three releases to make improvements to the Exchange content experience that address learning, implementing, and troubleshooting your Exchange environment...

Published Mon, Apr 28 2008 11:56 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Documentation, Community

Triggit is Winner of Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad

Congratulations to Zach Coelius and Triggit (http://www.triggit.com) as the winning startup at Web 2.0 Expo. Triggit helps bloggers and small website owners make money. Their simple WYSIWYG editing tool uses just one line of JavaScript to enable instant...

Published Sun, Apr 27 2008 12:54 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

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