Enterprise Collaboration in today's world has
become a reality and many organizations are effectively utilizing the power of this collaboration. Along with Enterprise Collaboration, the trend is focusing towards 'Enterprise Social Collaboration'.
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Since the time Microsoft announced Windows 8 and showed glimpses of it few years back, it has been highly talked about. I have had my fair share of blogs and papers on it.
Now with roughly half a year since Surface RT hit the retail stores and Surface Pro more recently making its presence on the shelves, the discussions around Windows 8 are anything but slowing down and most of the messages that I am hearing are around disappointment of people with it.
A colleague just shared this. When Microsoft had released Phone 8 they had talked about 18 months cycle before a new version will be made available. Phone 8 support ending in July 2014 is what it probably meant. Unlike regular desktop OS, in phone space, I believe once they release a new OS, they aren't really bothered about the earlier one. They probably took a different stand for their first version and did bring out Phone 7.8 (but with very limited new features).
Looks like this smart phone space will have very different dynamics. What do you think?
As I was just reading that Surface RT machines are hit by update issues, I ended up recalling that Windows Phone 7 had some early update issues. The devices had also run into issues in being able to download and update the firmware.
Is there a lesson to be learnt here? Is MS who has tranditionally dealt with PCs and workstations which typically involved over the LAN or CD based updates, not being able to manage over the wire updates? But surprisingly the Windows update service has been running well for many years now.
Let's hope that Phone 8 isn't hit by similar issues.
Smart phones are becoming bigger and tablets are becoming smaller. Feature functionality vise they today already overlap and many apps in the market place today are designed to run on both smart phones and tablets.
Will these seemingly disparate devices eventually merge into a single Smartlet or Tabphone device? What's your view?
Panasonic showcased prototype 4K resolution 20" Tablet at CES 2013. Read about it here, here, here and here. At 20" is that really a tablet? In this era when existing tablet makers are trying to go for smaller screen, does this 20" TV Monitor like screen make sense?
Given the size, it surely isn't portable as well. Also such high resolution will not be of much use as of today as application will appear too tiny on it and impossible to read and operate.
What do you make of it? Would a device like this succeed? Does it even qualify to be called as a tablet? What really is a tablet?
SharePoint 2013 has come up with App infrastructure. Very briefly, Apps are independent entities that can interact with SharePoint. They are treated as separate entities from SharePoint security perspective. This basically means that Apps have their own authentication and authorization with SharePoint. From Microsoft guidelines "App should be something that solves a business problem". In this blog we will try to figure out how Apps can give a new lease of life to existing legacy applications in an organization's intranet
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