The post For Microsoft, The Worm Turns Through Apple appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. That’s about the sum of my initial reaction to this story from ATD:  Exclusive: Microsoft Pressing Apple to Take a Smaller Cut on Sales Inside Office for iOS. image ) Wow. What a ridiculous notion! Fascinating stuff. MORE >>

Microsoft is rolling out a new feature in Hotmail that creates interactive e-mails that bring the Web into messages. Microsoft said the advance is the next logical step for e-mail, as it evolves from text and rich HTML to JavaScript. That will be one of the things Microsoft will likely monitor with its pilot program. MORE >>

'Last week Microsoft convened its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), educating, listening to, and entertaining about 16,000 of its top partners in Houston, Texas. This was my sixth WPC, and my 14 th year as part of the Microsoft partner community, and I processed the week’s events and write this series of blog posts from this point of view. MORE >>

Microsoft Office is a tool found in most offices, so a tool that makes it easy to not only share documents through the cloud but to collaborate on them would be a logical choice for many businesses. Microsoft Office and a Little More. It integrates online collaboration into the normal functions of Microsoft Office. MORE >>

Google MicrosoftNext gen browsers are the high ground on the maturing cloud battlefield, whether at individual or collaboration scale. Permissions, groups & filters configurations could be centralized in future vendor specific proprietary formats. MORE >>