Microsoft announced at WPC the new name for Microsoft codename “Geneva”
Updated: 2012-09-30 17:24:15
“Geneva” provides companies with simplified user access and single sign-on, for on-premises and cloud-based applications in the enterprise, across organizations, and on the Web to facilitate collaboration, increase security and reduce cost. The components
of “Geneva” are the “Geneva” Server, “Geneva” Framework and Cardspace “Geneva”, which will become Active Directory Federation Services, Windows Identity Foundation and Windows Cardspace respectively. These technologies will help customers integrate and extend
security across their enterprise.
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A couple of posts from Hal Berenson give insight into the internal battles at Microsoft as the company worked out its strategy to rescue Windows from irrelevance in the world of mobile and tablets. Berenson is now President of True Mountain Group LLC but was formerly at Microsoft where his roles included SQL Server development ...continue reading A glimpse into the internal battles that set the future of Windows and .NET
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E2 INNOVATE Santa Clara , CA E2 SOCIAL Boston , MA THE BLOG Event News Updates ARCHIVES Learn About Past Events CONTACT US Meet the Team Sep 27th , 2012 emilyjohnson Become A Mobile Leader This post was written by the Mobility track chair , Maribel Lopez , Principal Analyst , Lopez Research LLC Mobility represents one of the most fundamental changes in technology over the past two decades . Mobility fundamentally changes the number and type of devices we connect . Mobile changes the underlying computing operating system . This change will force businesses to rewrite applications and reengineer business processes to work on a wide variety of devices . Mobile technologies also provide the opportunity to change how we engage with our employees , customers and partners . It can also make
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It is less than a year ago that Adobe pivoted wholeheartedly from Flash to HTML, a moment that to mind was marked by the acquisition of Nitobi, the PhoneGap company, announced at MAX in October 2011. Yesterday Adobe clarified its plans for its new wave of web design tools branded Edge. These are as follows: ...continue reading Adobe Creating the Web, offers Edge animation tool for free
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Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesMicrosoft has been extremely tight lipped about the price of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system.The company previously only announced plans to run promotions for people buying eligible PCs with…Final Windows 8 Pricing revealed was posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & Themes. If you are not reading this content in an email newsletter, it is being used without permission.
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E2 INNOVATE Santa Clara , CA E2 SOCIAL Boston , MA THE BLOG Event News Updates ARCHIVES Learn About Past Events CONTACT US Meet the Team Sep 18th , 2012 emilyjohnson Big Data Won’t Guarantee Good Security Back in April , the Harvard Business Review ran an article that made the argument that Good Data Won’t Guarantee Good . Decisions The good data that the article talked about was Big Data . And what I’d add is that it certainly won’t guarantee good security and compliance . either The crux of the article was that organizations don’t have enough of the right sort of analysts to make good use of the potential insights that Big Data offers up . There weren’t enough cynics in the group , you might : say We evaluated 5,000 employees at 22 global companies and sorted them into three groups .
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Posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & ThemesMicrosoft today has revealed the final pricing structure for all versions of Office 2013. The company decided to make available subscription-based and standalone packages of the latest version of Office.…Microsoft reveals Office 2013 pricing was posted on Everything Microsoft - Latest Microsoft News, Guides, Reviews & Themes. If you are not reading this content in an email newsletter, it is being used without permission.
Dropbox is a high-profile convert to CoffeeScript, a language that has the elegance of Ruby or Python but compiles into clean JavaScript in order to run in the browser. The Dropbox team says that CoffeeScript fixes many of JavaScript’s “syntactic problems.” In addition, a porting exercise reduced 23,437 lines of JavaScript to 18,417 lines of ...continue reading Dropbox turns to CoffeeScript to beat JavaScript syntactic noise
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