Microsoft heeft de website rondom Het Nieuwe Werken in een nieuw jasje gestoken. Meer en vooral ook nieuwe informatie is overzichtelijker beschikbaar :
April 27, 2012
April 23, 2012
Veel nieuwe features in Microsoft #windowslive #Skydrive
Microsoft Windows Live Skydrive laat vandaag een aantal zeer mooie nieuwe features zien :
1. Skydrive App Windows en diverse andere platformen
2. Bijkopen van extra opslagcapaciteit
3. Skydrive Apps
April 17, 2012
Website Microsoft Global Foundation Services renewed #cloudcomputing
The website of Microsoft Global Foundation Services is totally renewed.
Global Foundation Services (GFS) is the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud services. We focus on smart growth, high reliability, operational excellence, cost-effectiveness, environmental sustainability, and a trustworthy online experience for customers and partners worldwide.
Go to : http://www.globalfoundationservices.com/ to check it out.
April 04, 2012
Rapport: Groeistuipen van Cloud Computing
Dit rapport gaat in op de invloed van de gebruikers van Cloud Computing. Zij beïnvloeden namelijk de aanbieders van ICT. Om te profiteren van Cloud Computing moeten aanbieders strategische keuzes maken. De belangrijkste conclusies uit het rapport:
- Alle ingrediënten zijn aanwezig om te profiteren van Cloud Computing
- Terughoudendheid bij ICT-aanbieders in het aanbieden van Cloud
- Uitdaging in omslag naar een vraaggestuurd model.
Source : ABN Amro -
April 01, 2012
SkyCMD : An even faster version of SkyDrive
The Windows Live Skydrive team keeps improving Skydrive. Today I noticed they’ve made an unexpected move .. back to the “DOS prompt” With http://skycmd.com .
O, and do notice the date this “new version” of Skydrive is announced
… Starting today, you can finally interact with SkyDrive the way you’ve always wanted to. You can use the classic DOS syntax to easily navigate your file hierarchy—familiar commands like “dir” and “cd.” Simple. Powerful.
SkyCMD: Command line access to your files on SkyDrive. Go to http://skycmd.com and check it out.
Once you connect SkyCMD to your SkyDrive account you can do many of the powerful things that only a CLI can offer. As for customization, try the “color” command to give your SkyCMD window a little flare.
Built from our SkyDrive APIs
One of our amazing developers, Luke, came up with the early rendition of SkyCMD and showed it around the SkyDrive hallways a couple months ago. We all loved it and knew that if it had a few more obscure commands and the right ASCII art we had a winner on our hands. The volume of internal feature requests for SkyCMD grew to the point that we’ve put the entire SkyDrive engineering organization to work building it. Our developer APIs, which Dare Obasanjo wrote about in his blog post back in December, are so powerful we just used those. We have even put the source code out as part of our sample code.
Of course in the near future we are going to ship what we recently announced and then some. But going forward the future of SkyDrive is SkyCMD!
Tony East
Lead Program Manager, SkyDrive.com
March 08, 2012
Bring Your Own … Cloud | #byoc
Gartner Group published a new report on Personal Cloud Services. The most recent developments with devices is that they all come with their own cloud services, like email, pictures, documents, etc.
Personally I love cloud services like Kindle and Netflix which span across almost all devices I typically use
Personal Cloud Services Will Be Integrated in Most Connected Devices by 2013: Gartner
…Speaking at a briefing for technology industry executives in Singapore today, Gartner managing vice president Andrew Johnson said that the emergence of personal clouds reflects the “4S experience”, consumers’ desire to store, synch, stream, and share their content on regardless of device or platform seamlessly. ...
“The shift to the personal cloud will accelerate rapidly in 2012 as consumers learn how to use new services on their devices,” said Mr. Johnson. “As cloud services become part of people’s lives, device vendors and platform providers must integrate cloud services in order to win customers in 2012 or risk being displaces by those that offer these services. Brands must stretch across multiple devices, platforms and services.”
According to Gartner’s definition, personal cloud allows consumers to seamlessly store, sync, stream and share using multiple connected devices such as smartphones, media tablets, televisions and PCs over the internet. Consumers have begun to adopt cloud-based services as part of their digital ecosystem, thanks to services such as Netflix, Google Apps, Amazon Music, Microsoft SkyDrive and Apple's iCloud. In a personal cloud, a TV show, for example, can be watched, left and resumed across multiple devices.
“The notion of personal cloud is not new, the refinement and diversity of services for consumers is,” said Mr. Johnson. “Online backup and synchronization companies have been offering personal cloud for years. However, a big change has occurred during the past couple of years, with the growing adoption of mobile and portable devices that have limited internal storage and rely heavily on cloud services. What distinguishes the personal cloud from what came before is its ability to store, synchronize, stream and share as needed allowing consumers greater flexibility in choosing devices and platforms.”
Gartner estimates that consumers will spend approximately US$2.2 trillion on digital technology products and services in 2012, or about 10 percent of the average disposable household income. By 2015, consumers will spend some US$2.8 trillion worldwide on connected devices, the services that run them and content that is transferred through them.
However, according to Gartner, growth is not the only opportunity.
“Inside the spending envelope, market dynamics will collapse some markets while creating others that expand the captured revenue. Providers of consumer devices, services and content must anticipate the risk of sweeping changes to their business models,” said Mr. Johnson. “The personal cloud will force technology providers not only to rethink how they approach markets, but also, more importantly, how they define markets. ‘Emerging’ and ‘mature’ markets are no longer useful market segmentation.”
However, traditional storage will not disappear overnight but will, however, be augmented by the consumer personal cloud. Gartner predicts that personal cloud will become widely adopted by 2015, but that in 2014 less than 10 percent of consumers will use cloud services as their main storage.
Gartner’s recommendations for technology vendors:
- Make personal cloud services a core part of your development efforts. Invisible and ubiquitous now, monetize later
- Take the time to educate and evangelize cloud services to consumers. A key to consumer cloud services will be educating people about the role of the cloud, and how new business models such as subscription and streaming services can coexist with existing services they are familiar with.
- Service providers must deliver an invisible content synchronization experience.
- Personal cloud services can’t be tied to one specific device or platform. An invisible experience means it works on anything.
- Failure to protect consumer data, or a lack of service reliability, could lead to a consumer backlash and a co-dependence on local storage, on top of privacy and security concerns.
More information is available in the Gartner report “Consumers and the Personal Cloud". The report and related research is available on Gartner's website at http://www.gartner.com/resId=1924714
A domainname like bringyourowncloud.com might proof its use some day in a $ 2.8 Trillion market …
February 02, 2012
Putting people first. #microsoft #google #privacy
Google has announced changes that have a big impact on the way privacy of its users is managed. Microsoft has published a response on the Offical Microsoft blog :
During the last week or so, there has been a fair amount of discussion about how Google is making some unpopular changes to some of its most popular products. You can see some of the concerns and worries about lack of choice and so on in these links.
When we read the coverage last week, it was clear people were honestly wrestling with the choices that had been made for them and were looking for options or alternatives.
The changes Google announced make it harder, not easier, for people to stay in control of their own information. We take a different approach – we work to keep you safe and secure online, to give you control over your data, and to offer you the choice of saving your information on your hard drive, in the cloud, or on both.
Source : Official Microsoft Blog
Kinect for Windows SDK released today
A new step in the way Kinect can be applied, in this case for (business) users. The SDK will allow developers to create solutions for Kinect combined with Windows machines. A whole new area of creative, and hopefully also very useful applications will emerge …
December 19, 2011
IT Showcase On: #Microsoft #Lync Deployment
Microsoft IT (MSIT) replaced PBX systems in seven sites located in thethree major regions. MSIT implemented user adoption strategies that resulted in a very successful deployment with high user satisfaction scores.
December 17, 2011
Reunited after many years #nokia #lumia800
Yesterday I received a new phone”upgrade”; I switched my SamSung device for a Nokia Lumia 800
And it had been a while since I last used one :
Good to be reunited with Nokia .. by far the coolest phone out there in my humble opinion …
CRN : Microsoft Office365–Best Cloud Application of 2011 #msonline #office365
CRN has published an overview of their ‘15 Best Product for 2011’. Office365 is their pick for best Cloud Application :
Cloud Application: Office 365
Microsoft launched its cloud-based service for Exchange, SharePoint and Lync -- with support for online versions of its Office franchise -- with ultra-competitive pricing starting at $6 per month per user. Enterprises can be up and running with full functionality within minutes, it can be managed in-house or remotely by resellers, and we found it to be uber-flexible and compelling. It’s the real deal, and it blows away Google Apps.
Remarkable also that other then the highlighted text no mention of Google product / service anywhere in the whole overview.
Source : CRN.com
December 07, 2011
Grote Xbox Live update vanaf vandaag #xbox360
Spannend, vanaf vandaag starten de updates voor de Xbox360 …
December 05, 2011
Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises #msonline #office365
The Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises presents important deployment planning concepts and deployment procedures. The deployment guide is organized into the sections that provide specific types of information for specific types of deployment personnel in your organization.
Here is a quick overview of what you will find:
- Deployment Overview section. This material provides the high-level look at the deployment and organizational requirements to deploy Office 365. It has valuable information for your IT decision-makers, program managers, and technical implementation leads.
- Plan and Prepare sections. These sections describe the particular tasks and activities required to get ready and fully implement your Office 365 deployment. The tasks are generally presented in the order in which you address them during your deployment. Topics discussed in the Plan section generally reappear in the Prepare section with instructions for carrying out a task. The Plan and Prepare sections contain content that will interest specific types of technology experts in your organization.
- Migrate section. This section describes the tasks for moving your users’ mailboxes to the Office 365 environment so you can begin using the Office 365 as part of your production environment.
Download : Microsoft.com
November 22, 2011
Microsoft Future Vision Videos all in 1 list
I use the Microsoft Future Vision videos quite a lot in presentations and over the years Microsoft has produced a number of them. They are always very well received as they paint not only a futuristic, but in many cases also a realistic picture of how we work and play in the future. I can’t wait
A large number of Future Vision (and related) videos are now on Youtube so I put them in a list for you :
