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• How to discredit hacked links pointing at my company's website

  - by Dan Gayle

  The competition of one of my company's websites has started a really dirty campaign of acquiring hack links. One of their ingenious tactics has been to seed in links to OUR site withing their hack bot, making US look like we might be responsible for it or using us to cover their tail. These are .gov and .edu sites. Is there any way possible to discredit these links? To disavow them at all? EDIT: Penguin has really effected this question, IMO. Does anyone know if there is a revised opinion on disavowing backlinks to your site?

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• My Feelings About Microsoft Surface

  - by Valter Minute

  Advice: read the title carefully, I’m talking about “feelings” and not about advanced technical points proved in a scientific and objective way I still haven’t had a chance to play with a MS Surface tablet (I would love to, of course) and so my ideas just came from reading different articles on the net and MS official statements. Remember also that the MVP motto begins with “Independent” (“Independent Experts. Real World Answers.”) and this is just my humble opinion about a product and a technology. I know that, being an MS MVP you can be called an “MS-fanboy”, I don’t care, I hope that people can appreciate my opinion, even if it doesn’t match theirs. The “Surface” brand can be confusing for techies that knew the “original” surface concept but I think that will be a fresh new brand name for most of the people out there. But marketing department are here to confuse people… so I can understand this “recycle” of an existing name. So Microsoft is entering the hardware arena… for me this is good news. Microsoft developed some nice hardware in the past: the xbox, zune (even if the commercial success was quite limited) and, last but not least, the two arc mices (old and new model) that I use and appreciate. In the past Microsoft worked with OEMs and that model lead to good and bad things. Good thing (for microsoft, at least) is market domination by windows-based PCs that only in the last years has been reduced by the return of the Mac and tablets. Google is also moving in the hardware business with its acquisition of Motorola, and Apple leveraged his control of both the hardware and software sides to develop innovative products. Microsoft can scare OEMs and make them fly away from windows (but where?) or just lead the pack, showing how devices should be designed to compete in the market and bring back some of the innovation that disappeared from recent PC products (look at the shelves of your favorite electronics store and try to distinguish a laptop between the huge mass of anonymous PCs on displays… only Macs shine out there…). Having to compete with MS “official” hardware will force OEMs to develop better product and bring back some real competition in a market that was ruled only by prices (the lower the better even when that means low quality) and no innovative features at all (when it was the last time that a new PC surprised you?). Moving into a new market is a big and risky move, but with Windows 8 Microsoft is playing a crucial move for its future, trying to be back in the innovation run against apple and google. MS can’t afford to fail this time. I saw the new devices (the WinRT and Pro) and the specifications are scarce, misleading and confusing. The first impression is that the device looks like an iPad with a nice keyboard cover… Using “HD” and “full HD” to define display resolution instead of using the real figures and reviving the “ClearType” brand (now dead on Win8 as reported here and missed by people who hate to read text on displays, like myself) without providing clear figures (couldn’t you count those damned pixels?) seems to imply that MS was caught by surprise by apple recent “retina” displays that brought very high definition screens on tablets.Also there are no specifications about the processors used (even if some sources report NVidia Tegra for the ARM tablet and i5 for the x86 one) and expected battery life (a critical point for tablets and the point that killed Windows7 x86 based tablets). Also nothing about the price, and this will be another critical point because other platform out there already provide lots of applications and have a good user base, if MS want to enter this market tablets pricing must be competitive. There are some expansion ports (SD and USB), so no fixed storage model (even if the specs talks about 32-64GB for RT and 128-256GB for pro). I like this and don’t like the apple model where flash memory (that it’s dirt cheap used in thumdrives or SD cards) is as expensive as gold (or cocaine to have a more accurate per gram measurement) when mounted inside a tablet/phone. For big files you’ll be able to use external media and an SD card could be used to store files that don’t require super-fast SSD-like access times, I hope. To be honest I really don’t like the marketplace model and the limitation of Windows RT APIs (no local database? from a company that based a good share of its success on VB6+Access!) and lack of desktop support on the ARM (even if the support is here and has been used to port office). It’s a step toward the consumer market (where competitors are making big money), but may impact enterprise (and embedded) users that may not appreciate Windows 8 new UI or the limitations of the new app model (if you aren’t connected you are dead ). Not having compatibility with the desktop will require brand new applications and honestly made all the CPU cycles spent to convert .NET IL into real machine code in the past like a huge waste of time… as soon as a new processor architecture is supported by Windows you still have to rewrite part of your application (and MS is pushing HTML5+JS and native code more than .NET in my perception). On the other side I believe that the development experience provided by Visual Studio is still miles (or kilometres) ahead of the competition and even the all-uppercase menu of VS2012 hasn’t changed this situation. The new metro UI got mixed reviews. On my side I should say that is very pleasant to use on a touch screen, I like the minimalist design (even if sometimes is too minimal and hides stuff that, in my opinion, should be visible) but I should also say that using it with mouse and keyboard is like trying to pick your nose with boxing gloves… Metro is also very interesting for embedded devices where touch screen usage is quite common and where having an application taking all the screen is the norm. For devices like kiosks, vending machines etc. this kind of UI can be a great selling point. I don’t need a new tablet (to be honest I’m pretty happy with my wife’s iPad and with my PC), but I may change my opinion after having a chance to play a little bit with those new devices and understand what’s hidden under all this mysterious and generic announcements and specifications!

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• Oracle Database In-Memory Launch - Featuring Larry Ellison - June 10 - Joint the live webcast!

  - by Javier Puerta

  For more than three-and-a-half decades, Oracle has defined database innovation. With our market-leading technologies, customers have been able to out-think and out-perform their competition. Soon they will be able to do that even faster. At a live launch event and simultaneous webcast, Larry Ellison will reveal the future of the database. Promote this strategic event to customers.  Watch Larry Ellison on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 19:00 – 20:30 a.m. CET  6:00 pm - 7:30 pm UK  Join the webcast here!

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• Oracle Database In-Memory Launch - Featuring Larry Ellison - June 10 - Joint the webcast!

  - by Javier Puerta

  For more than three-and-a-half decades, Oracle has defined database innovation. With our market-leading technologies, customers have been able to out-think and out-perform their competition. Soon they will be able to do that even faster. At a live launch event and simultaneous webcast, Larry Ellison will reveal the future of the database. Promote this strategic event to customers.  Watch Larry Ellison on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 19:00 – 20:30 a.m. CET  6:00 pm - 7:30 pm UK  Join the webcast here!

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• 4 Ways Your Brand Can Jump From the Edge of Space

  - by Mike Stiles

  Can your brand’s social media content captivate the world and make it hold its collective breath? Can you put something on the screen that’s so compelling that your audience can’t look away? Will they want to make sure their friends see it so they can talk about it? If not, you’re probably not with Red Bull. I was impressed with Red Bull’s approach to social content even before Felix Baumgartner’s stunning skydive from the edge of space. And then they did this. According to Visible Measures, videos of the jump scored 50 million views in 4 days. 1,700 clips were generated from both official and organic sources. The live stream was the most watched YouTube Stream of all time (8 million concurrent viewers). The 2nd most watched live stream was…Felix’ first attempt Oct. 9. Are you ready to compete with that? I ask that question because some brands are still out there tying themselves up in knots about whether or not they should tweet. The public’s time and attention are scarce commodities, commodities they value greatly. The competition amongst brands for that time and attention is intense and going up like Felix’s capsule. If you still view your press releases as “content,” you won’t even be counted as being among the competition. Here are 5 lessons learned from Red Bull’s big leap: 1. They have a total understanding of their target market and audience. Not only do they have an understanding of it, they do something about it. They act on it. They fill the majority of their thoughts with what the audience wants. They hunger for wild applause from that audience. They want to do things that embrace the audience’s lifestyle and immerse in it so the target will identify the brand as “one of them.” Takeaway: BE your target market. 2. They deliver content that strikes the audience right where they emotionally live. If you want your content to have impact, you have to make your audience’s heart race, or make them tear up, or make them laugh. Label them “data points” all you want, but humans are emotional creatures. No message connects that’s not carried in on an emotion. Takeaway: You’re on the inside. If your content doesn’t make you say “wow,” it’s unlikely it will register with fans. 3. They put aside old school marketing and don’t let their content be degraded into a commercial. Their execs seem to understand the value in keeping a lid on the hard sell. So many brands just can’t bring themselves to disconnect advertising and social content. The result is, otherwise decent content gets contaminated with a desperation the viewer can smell a mile away. Think the Baumgartner skydive didn’t do Red Bull any good since he wasn’t drinking one on the way down while singing a jingle? Analysis company Taykey discovered that at the peak of the skydive buzz, about 1% of all online conversation was about the jump. Mentions of Red Bull constituted 1/3 of 1% of all Internet activity. Views of other Red Bull videos also shot up. Takeaway: Chill out with the ads. Your brand will get full credit for entertaining/informing fans in a relevant way, provided you do it. 4. They don’t hesitate to ask, “What can we do next”? Most corporate cultures are a virtual training facility for “we can’t do that.” Few are encouraged to innovate or think big, if think at all. Thinking big involves faith, and work. It means freedom and letting employees run a little wild with their ideas. There will always be the opportunity to let fear of everything that moves creep in and kill grand visions dead in their tracks. Experimenting must be allowed. Failure must be allowed. Red Bull didn’t think big. They thought mega. They tried to outdo themselves. Felix could have gone ahead and jumped halfway up, thinking, “This is still relatively high up. Good enough.” But that wouldn’t have left us breathless. Takeaway: Go for it. Jump. In putting up social properties and gathering fans of your brand, you’ve basically invited people to a party. A good host doesn’t just set out warm beer and stale chips because that’s inexpensive and easy. Be on the lookout for ways to make your guests walk away saying, “That was epic.”

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• JavaFx a-t-il encore une chance de s'imposer face à Flash, Silverlight et l'émergence du HTML 5 ? Ou

  JavaFx a-t-il encore une chance de s'imposer Face à Flash, Silverlight et l'émergence du HTML 5 ? JavaFx a été lancé il y a trois ans pour développer des applications lourdes. Très vite, les développeurs l'ont utilisé pour des applications multimédias et pour faire du web java (notamment des Rich Internet Applications ou RIA). La plateforme - qui se compose du langage de script JavaFX, une plateforme pour client lourd et une intégration avec la machine virtuelle Java - entendait ainsi répondre ainsi aux besoins d'un marché où la compétition fait désormais rage avec, entre autres, des acteurs aussi importants que Flash de Adobe et Silverlight de Microsoft. Selon la

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• When acquiring a domain name for product xyz, is it still important to buy .net and .org versions too?

  - by Borek

  I am buying a domain name for service xyz and obviously I have bought .com in the first place. In the past it was automatic to also buy the .net and .org versions. However, I've been asking myself, why would I do that? To serve customers who mistakenly enter a different TLD? (Would someone accidentally do that these days?) To avoid a chance that competition will acquire those TLDs and play some dirty game on my customers? If there is a good reason, or a few, to buy the .net and .org versions these days I'd like to see those listed. Thanks.

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• Une pénurie d'écrans tactiles pourrait frapper en 2011, 60% du stock mondial serait réservé par Apple

  Une pénurie d'écrans tactiles pourrait frapper en 2011, 60% du stock mondial serait réservé par Apple Après l'IPv4, on pourrait connaître une pénurie... d'écrans tactiles ! Il semblerait en effet qu'Apple se soit octroyé 60% de la production mondiale pour 2011, en effectuant des réservations auprès des fabriquants. Évidemment, le succès de l'iPad y serait pour quelque chose, la firme souhaitant en produire 40 millions d'exemplaires au cours de l'année. Le soucis, c'est que Cupertino n'est pas la seule entreprise demandeuse de ce type de technologie, qui est en pleine expansion. Tous les fabricants de tablettes et de smartphones veulent leur part du gâteau, et la compétition risque d'être...

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• What are the Crappy Code Games - Why should I attend?

  - by simonsabin

  This is part of a series on the Crappy Code Games The background Who can enter? What are the challenges? What are the prizes? Why should I attend? Tips on how to win Why should I attend? The crappy code games isn’t all about winning, its also about having a good time and learning about SQL Server. Even if you don’t want to enter the competition I think its valuable for you to come along to the heats and the final in Brighton as a chance to meat SQL Server bods and also to learn about SQL Server and...(read more)

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• What are the Crappy Code Games - Who can enter?

  - by simonsabin

  This is part of a series on the Crappy Code Games The background Who can enter? What are the challenges? What are the prizes? Why should I attend? Tips on how to win Who can enter? Anyone can enter the competition, whats more anyone can just come along for the evening. All the evenings are aimed at being a social evening with food and drink. So just think of them as usergroup meetings with The evening will have lots of SQL bods in attendance and I'll be trying to help out anyone that wants some...(read more)

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• Pwn2Own 2011 : Safari vaincu en 5 secondes lors du concours de hacking, Internet Explorer 8 exploité

  Pwn2Own 2011 : Safari vaincu en 5 secondes, Internet Explorer 8 exploité La célèbre compétition de hacking Pwn2Own, qui se déroule une fois par an à Vancouver, a commencé hier. Et à l'occasion de cette première journée, deux navigateurs ont été franchement asticotés. Les spécialistes de la sécurité informatique qui participent au concours devaient choisir chacun un browser à malmener. Et ces derneirs...ont délaissé Firefox, qui n'a été choisi par personne ! Puis, un seul a décidé de s'occuper de Chrome, mais il ne s'est jamais présenté. Les autres concurrents se sont quant à eux concentrés sur Internet Explorer et Safari. Et le logiciel d'Apple n'aura pas résisté très longtemps. Ainsi, en cette première journée, Safa...

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• Google won't display site

  - by Markasoftware

  My website (markasoftware.getenjoyment.net) doesn't seem to be indexed properly by Google (I haven't tried other search engines). When I type in the URL of my site it appears right at the top of the list like it should. When I type in the entire contents of the title, however, the site doesn't appear! The title is quite long (Thermonuclear War Game Online: Thermonuclear War By Mark) and it has little (if any) competition. Have I been punished by Google for some reason, or is it something else? I have received zero hits from search engines. Can someone tell me why my site down't appear?

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• And the winner of the Umbraco CodeGarden&rsquo;10 giveaway is&hellip;

  Michele Minorello, aka minorello, from Padova, Italy. If you didnt win, dont despair: there are still places available, and if you took part in this competition (and even if you didnt) you can buy a ticket with 75 discount (375 instead of the regular price of 450), using the coupon code SIMONECHIARETTA. Back to the giveaway: Last week I announced that, with the help of Niels Hartvig, I was giving away one free ticket for the umbraco CodeGarden 2010 and 4 nights in the hotel. Signing up for the...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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• Imagine Cup : Microsoft annonce les gagnants qui représenteront la France lors de la finale mondiale

  Imagine Cup : Microsoft annonce les gagnants qui représenteront la France lors de la finale mondiale de Juillet en Pologne Depuis 8 ans, l'Imagine Cup de Microsoft, la plus grande compétition mondiale pour les étudiants, est disputée par des équipes d'informaticiens en herbe de plus de 100 nationalités différentes. Cette année, ce sont plus de 225 000 étudiants qui se sont mobilisés pour ce concours, dont la finale mondiale se tiendra en Pologne xxxxxx En Mai, la finale France du championnant a eu lieu au siège parisien de Microsoft. A cette occasion, une vingtaine d'équipes d'étudiants venants de toute la France se sont affrontées en présentant leurs projets au jury. Ce sont les catégories «*Concepti...

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• Protecting design ideas from being copied by other websites?

  - by mickburkejnr

  Hi everyone, I'm planning a project at the moment, while building a completely different project at the same time. Both of these projects are quite innovative in the way they either work or the way they are presented. One of the projects hasn't been done before, and the other is being made has competition, but I feel the competitions websites are light years behind what I'm doing. Is there a way for me to prevent the way my sites work or presented from being stolen? I've thought of patenting parts of them, but it requires £10,000 and I don't have that amount of money. Also, would me putting a Copyright notice on the site or an All Rights Reserved tag give me any muscle when going to websites that I feel have stolen my ideas (if they have)? Cheers!

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• Help Convert Your Pipeline Opportunities Into Wins

  - by swalker

  Are you looking for an extra advantage to help convert your pipeline opportunities into wins?  The Buy Now, Pay Less for Oracle Hardware & Software  and the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) Low Entry Payment offer simplified payment plans, with low promotional rates which represent the most affordable way for your accounts to acquire the systems they need now. With payments you grow your deals by selling into future years' budgets; and you mitigate your credit and collections risk - Oracle pays you on behalf of your customer, while your customer makes payments over time. Payments deliver the following benefits: Uncover hidden obstacles and shorten sales-cycles Access the financial decision maker Offer an alternate line of credit Differentiate or match your competition Offer an alternate line of credit to preserve scarce capital Don't wait for a request for financing from your account. Quote your business with these promotions proactively, before any requests. For more information on Oracle Financing for partners visit us at OPN or email [email protected]

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• Looking for a 24 Hour project for multiple languages [closed]

  - by Daan Timmer

  Right two friends and I came up with this idea of having a 24h programming competition. Where we are going to meet at one place and program away for 24hours long. Though we need a 'project'. Something that needs to be made within 24h. Doesn't have to be a real thing, just a nice learning 'thing'. The rules that we setup for ourselves is that the project can be programmed in any language of our own choice. What I know is that one guy is a PHP enthousiastic, we've got a C#/.NET person. And I am quite easy in languages and speak quite a few (PHP/C#.net/C++STL/Python/JavaScript/Java). Anything really language specific is out of the question. Is there anyone who happens to have a great idea for this?

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• Ecopad : une tablette qui s'auto-recharge avec la pression des doigts sur l'écran tactile

  Ecopad : une tablette qui s'auto-recharge Avec la pression des doigts sur l'écran tactile Des designers coréens ont réalisé un nouveau concept de tablette doté d'une batterie auto-rechargeable baptisé EcoPad. Le système inventé par les designers Jun-se Kim, Yonggu Do et Eunha Seo et présente lors de compétition Fujitsu Design Award 2011, convertit l'énergie générée par la pression des doigts sur l'écran tactile pour la transformer en énergie électrique qui est ensuite utilisée par le dispositif. Selon une étude, les utilisateurs des terminaux tactiles pressent en moyenne 10 000 fois par jour l'écran de leur appareil. [IMG]http://rdonfack.developpez.com/images/ecopa...

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• Getting a job at Google/Microsoft companies [on hold]

  - by user2498079

  Alot of people say it is very hard to get a job at Google/Microsoft. Due to insufficient number of jobs, there is very tough competition for fresh graduates to get a job at the worthy company. I have read certain articles which encourage fresh graduates to have good projects (Programming projects), Focus on Accomplishments or have a good reputation on websites like this one. So my question is what kind of programming projects & accomplishments help in getting job at Google/Microsoft. There are alot of other factors like communication skills & leadership etc but this is not the main concern here. Regards

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• What are the crappy code games - the background?

  - by simonsabin

  This is part of a series on the Crappy Code Games The background Who can enter? What are the challenges? What are the prizes? Why should I attend? Tips on how to win   The Background Fusion IO came to us a while back wanting to run a competition to highlight the how bad code can really impact your system. We’ve all seen it, I saw an example yesterday where someone had implemented a cursor on a whole table just to update a few rows, something like this. declare cUpdateCursor cursor for  ...(read more)

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• C++ vainqueur d'un benchmark avec Java, Scala et Go présenté aux Scala Days, l'étude portait sur l'implémentation d'un algorithme

  C++ vainqueur d'un benchmark avec Java, Scala et Go Présentée aux Scala Days, l'étude portait sur l'implémentation d'un algorithme Bonne nouvelle pour tous les amateurs de C++ ! Ce langage reste le plus performant et sans conteste ! Présenté au Scala Days en début de mois, un benchmark met en compétition le C++, Java, Scala et GO pour l'implémentation du même algorithme en cherchant à s'appuyer sur les éléments du langage (pas de Boost ici donc). Et C++ remporte haut la main en temps d'exécution mais aussi en empreinte mémoire. Mieux, contrairement à certaines idées reçues, les temps de compilation ou le nombre de ligne de code restent à des valeurs qui n'ont pas à rougir face à Java par exemple....

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• Google devrait-il arrêter le développement de Chrome OS ? La séparation des équipes de Chrome et Android est jugée "stupide"

  Google devrait-il abandonner le développement de Chrome OS ? Un analyste de Bloomberg vient de publier un billet de blog plutôt provocateur. Il y traite Google d'imbécile, du fait de son organisation interne relative au développement de ses deux systèmes d'exploitation. En effet, il faut savoir qu'à Mountain View, une équipe travaille sur Chrome OS, tandis que l'autre s'occupe d'Android. Et ces deux groupes ne collaborent absolument pas, il régnerait même entre eux un fort esprit de compétition, d'après certains salariés de la firme. Pourtant, d'après Brad Stone, Android a largement démontré sa supériorité et sa plus grande popularité que son "concurrent" interne. Il estime donc que le staff ...

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• New Features, Fresh Competitive Edge: Help Your Customers Get the Most from Oracle RightNow Cloud Service by Sandi Main

  - by Tuula Fai

  Are your customers taking full advantage of their customer service solution? If they’re not up-to-speed with the new features of Oracle RightNow Cloud Service, this is their chance to catch up—and gain competitive advantage. Invite customers to join our live Webcast on Thursday, July 16, for a rapid overview of Oracle RightNow Cloud Service's most powerful new capabilities and what they mean for their organization. They’ll learn how they can: Take full advantage of RightNow's evolution under Oracle Stay ahead of the competition with key innovations and enhancements Upgrade with confidence based on other user experiences Don't miss the chance to help your customers deliver an even smarter customer experience.  Click here for the Evite to send to your customers.

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• How to convince management of making our project open source?

  - by MrSoundless

  Xamarin 3 was released last week with a great new addition: Xamarin.Forms . This triggered our attention because we've been using such a system for a couple of years now. We've developed it by ourselves and used it for a bunch of projects. We've been looking for a way to make this project open source but we didn't manage to convince the management. They believe we should not make it open source because we won't win anything with it and all that will happen is that the competition will be able to build apps quicker with our library. We believe open sourcing our library will make the world a better place and that it will make our library much more stable and complete. So my question to all you people out there: How can we convince the management to open source our library?

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• Office 365 : première mise à jour majeure, la suite Cloud de Microsoft s'enrichit d'une trentaine de fonctionnalités

  Première mise à jour majeure pour Office 365 La suite d'outils de productivité hébergée de Microsoft s'enrichit d'une trentaine de fonctionnalités [IMG]http://ftp-developpez.com/gordon-fowler/Office%20365/Office%20365%20logo%202.jpg[/IMG] Alors que la compétition se fait de plus en plus forte avec Google et ses Google Apps, Microsoft vient d'annoncer la première mise à jour majeure d'Office 365. Pour mémoire, Office 365fonctionne par abonnement mensuel. Le service donne accès à Microsoft Office Professionnel Plus 2010 et à un ensemble complet d'outils en mode hébergé : Office Web Apps (version en ligne et simplifiée de Office 2010), Sharepoint Online 2010 (sites collaboratifs, sit...

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