By BARBARA ORTUTAY 2010-06-30T20:16:33Z NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires outside applications and websites to tell users exactly what parts of their profiles have to be shared for the apps to work…. The rest is here:  Facebook launches `permissions’ for apps, websites  Read More →

Most of us by now are familiar with all the obviously new parts of Office 2010 , such as the revised Ribbon , the Backstage document view , Paste preview , and Originally posted here: More great Office 2010 features for business  Read More →

The core idea behind PowerPivot is deceptively simple: Since people use Excel as a generic data analysis tool, why not make Excel into a front end for data analysis from any number of sources, not just the app itself? This way, they don’t have to learn an entirely new program; they can leverage all the skills and habits they’ve built up with Excel. The end result is PowerPivot, and I see... 

Is the era of desktop software over? With the general release of Office 2010 this week, Microsoft seems to be sending a mixed message. On the one hand, Office 2010 is the slickest, most feature-rich version of the suite to date. That’s a clear challenge to Google, which offers a simpler, Web-based alternative to Office in the form of Google Docs. Read the rest here: Microsoft Office Web Apps:... 

NEW YORK (AP) — Good news for the news business: Companies are paying newspapers and magazines up to five times as much to place ads in their iPad applications as what similar advertising costs on regular websites…. See the original post here: Publishers see signs the iPad can restore ad money  Read More →

Among my LinkedIn information, my Twitter feed (@JPBruzzese), my Facebook site, and the other social and business networks that I use, a person could really catch up on all I’ve been up to — if they only knew where to look. Conversely, I could get a snapshot of another person’s comings and goings by peering into the same social and business networks. But it would be much easier if... 

Although much of the hype around Office 2010 has focused on how the product integrates with other Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint 2010 and Windows 7, most users won’t care about those capabilities until after making the leap to Office 2010 itself. Their main concern comes down to what Office 2010 can do for a user right out of the box. See more here: Top 10 Office 2010 features for... 

After 10 hours of meetings with Microsoft Services this past week, I can share with you the big picture in terms of how Microsoft supports its customers, which include everyone from governments all the way down to my own family. Here is the original post: Making sense of Microsoft’s support offerings  Read More →

Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 — and hence support for the upcoming HTML5 standard — to users of its older Windows XP operating system. More: Microsoft gets some heat over HTML5 plans  Read More →

As I mentioned last week, I’ve been invited to spend a few days visiting various teams within Microsoft . One of the first teams I had the pleasure to meet with was the SharePoint Team. Well, I didn’t get to meet the entire team (its members are no doubt quite busy), but Richard Riley, the group product manager, demonstrated various features that illustrated the business value of SharePoint...