derek abdinor » microsoft http://derek.abdinor.co.za online disclosure Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:45:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Microsoft lets shareholders advise on director pay http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2009/09/19/microsoft-lets-shareholders-advise-on-director-pay/ http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2009/09/19/microsoft-lets-shareholders-advise-on-director-pay/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:32:56 +0000 derek http://derek.abdinor.co.za/?p=346 I thought I’d capture all the links as they appear in Google news – to represent the news as and where it comes out.


Microsoft shareholders to get ‘say on pay‘

TechFlash (blog) - Todd Bishop - ‎11 hours ago‎
Microsoft’s board says it will hold a non-binding, advisory shareholder vote on the salaries of the company’s executives every three years, starting with …
Reuters - ‎18 hours ago‎
Microsoft worked with a number of shareholders to develop its say-on-pay shareholder vote approach. In particular, the company met with representatives of …
]]> http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2009/09/19/microsoft-lets-shareholders-advise-on-director-pay/feed/ 0 Sharepoint bundles with Atlassion and NewsGator | RWW http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2007/10/17/sharepoint-bundles-with-atlassion-and-newsgator-rww/ http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2007/10/17/sharepoint-bundles-with-atlassion-and-newsgator-rww/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:38:22 +0000 derek http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2007/10/17/sharepoint-bundles-with-atlassion-and-newsgator-rww/ Just like the first eight of engerland, Microsoft get to the loose ball slowly, but they drive on relentlessly, onward and on. Pardon the analogy, but that’s how MS is being interpreted by my RWC2007-addled brain. They are johnny-come-lately (not Wilkinson) along with other ERM giants to the benefits of enterprise 2.0, but once they’ve arrived their presence is felt. SharePoint had already adopted blogs and wikis for internal use in its product, today they cemented that vision.

Taken from McManus’ article:

Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator. The partnerships link togther Microsoft’s SharePoint product with Atlassian’s wiki collaboration product Confluence and a new offering from Newsgator called ‘NewsGator Social Sites’, a collection of site templates, profiles, Web parts and middleware for SharePoint. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a key product for Microsoft – it has collaboration, business intelligence, content management, search and “social computing” capabilities (Microsoft’s term for ‘web 2.0′, according to this page on Microsoft’s website).

The aim of the partnerships is to add more “social computing platform” capabilities to SharePoint, which up till now has mainly been promoted as an “enterprise productivity platform”. In other words, Microsoft is adding more web 2.0 functionality (e.g. collaboration, personal publishing) to SharePoint, using best of breed web products from Atlassian and Newsgator.

Update: definitive article from Susan Scrupski.

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