Microsoft invited seven startups to a competition aptly named SharePoint 2010 SocialFest. They built SharePoint apps for e-mail, microblogging, document swapping and market research
Microsoft released the public beta of SharePoint 2010 in November. Its claim to fame is its support of rapid app development. SharePoint has become one of Microsoft's most insanely popular products and Microsoft would like to see the 2010 version become the de facto platform for custom business social apps.
New analyst study claims users are looking for isolated and more specific applications
Despite platform improvements coming in Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 server, the software is likely to be overkill for users seeking to meet isolated and specific requirements, according to a study by Forrester Research.
SharePoint 2010 might be on the way, but 2007 still offers lots of tools
SharePoint 2010 may be on Microsoft's immediate road map, but users churning away on the current 2007 platform can still juice their rollouts with a host of add-ons that make the existing version seem new again.
Microsoft rebuffs criticism that its widely-quoted momentum figures mask a less-rosy reality
Guessing what eye-popping growth figures Microsoft will trumpet for its popular portal and collaboration app, SharePoint, has become an annual parlor game for fans and detractors alike.
Company's new API can, among other things, move files from Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes to Google Sites collaborative content development tool
Signaling an intent to compete with giants in the collaboration software space, Google is introducing an API to extend the Google Sites collaborative content development tool, featuring a capability to migrate files from workspace applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes to Sites.
Sharepoint tool aimed at data consistency, compliance
MetaVis Technologies Monday released a set of tools to classify and organize data to help users improve the search capabilities in Microsoft's SharePoint Server.
Mainsoft's Integrator tool enables easy access to SharePoint for Notes users
Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server software is, by many accounts, a huge hit, providing that seemingly irresistible formula of solid technology for free or at a low price.
With Mainsoft Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, Microsoft SharePoint Edition, developers and others can collaborate on Application Lifecycle Management
Mainsoft is linking users of IBM's Jazz platform for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) to users of Microsoft's SharePoint platform for collaboration and business processes.
Microsoft's Exchange Online and SharePoint Online hosted applications are now generally available.
In five years, Microsoft expects half of all enterprise employees with e-mail to use a combined online and premises-based system like the company's Exchange Online, an executive said Monday at a launch event for that software and the SharePoint Online hosted collaboration application.
Microsoft may be set to offer some of its hosted business-productivity services earlier than the company expected.
Microsoft on Monday will release the first of several of its hosted business-productivity services.
