At a press event in New York on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer officially launched Office 365 , the Redmond software giant’s suite of online collaboration and office tools. However, that’s probably not the market that Microsoft is aiming at. Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business. percent uptime. MORE >>

While my first impressions of the next version of Microsoft Office, Office 2010, were quite positive , I did have one major disappointment. Why didn’t Microsoft make Outlook 2010 more social? The developers behind the tools surveyed in this post have provided some valuable features I would have expected to see in the new Outlook 2010. MORE >>

Specifically, the tutorial I moderated on Monday that featured IBM and Microsoft. For this event, I proposed a tutorial that would allow attendees to learn more about the social computing platforms from IBM and Microsoft from a user adoption perspective rather than a "plumbing" or infrastructure viewpoint. Microsoft. 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 >>

Re-printed below is a post of mine from August 2006, Tools do not a master make , that explores a similar theme. = = == ==. No tool of modern technology is as universally used, and almost as universally reviled, in the world of business and government as is Microsoft PowerPoint. — Apple - iLife - Garageband. MORE >>