The Surface team at Microsoft shared a couple of case studies of customers in industrial design and manufacturing businesses. The video above is about Bob Mileti: For industrial designers like Bob Mileti of Trlby Innovative,there’s always a goal to balance simplicity, power, and usability in everything they create. […]
The Office 365 team announced (and released) Clutter for Office 365 today, a machine learning method of decluttering a user’s inbox by automagically moving lower priority items out of the Inbox and into a secondary folder. Clutter learns from your actions to determine the messages you are likely […]
In March 2013 Vodafone New Zealand announced a 10 year partnership with the New Zealand Police to bring modern mobile technology and apps to frontline staff. From April this year [2013], Vodafone New Zealand will deliver customised mobile services and smartphones to NZ Police, enabling more than 6,000 […]
Two long-term Notes customers announced a shift away to something else over the past week. Coca-Cola Bottling Company United (one of 200 Coca-Cola bottlers worldwide) migrated 1,100 users to Microsoft Office 365, and PwC announced a new global alliance with Google and the migration of 45,000 PwC employees […]
The creative team at Unify has put together four videos that show what email failure looks like. If you’re in need of five minutes of light-hearted relief, watch #emailfail.
Stuff is the online go-to-news source in New Zealand; a good aggregation of newspapers from across the country, plus online only news. A current assignment for one of the writers is about workplace IT nightmares: A staggering $9 billion is spent on IT in New Zealand every year, […]
When the new CEO at Microsoft announced the end of Microsoft’s devices and services strategy a few months ago, I wondered what this meant for the Surface line. If the old strategy was eliminated in full, that would mean the Surface product line would have to go too, […]
The seventh Social Connections event is being held in Stockholm next week. The event provides two days of content and discussions on social business and IBM Connections. I attended and spoke at the fifth event in Zurich (June 2013). I wish I could go to this one … […]
I have been wondering over the past month whatever happened to the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac. The current version dates back to 2011, and while there is nothing inherently wrong with it, it would be nice to see some of the innovations in Office for […]
As a leader of many workshops during each year, I am keenly interested in the human dynamics of the room. Those who ask me to come and run a workshop will usually find that I rearrange the room to my specification before starting, a process which can take up to 30 […]
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