As opposed to attempting (and failing) to complete complete weblog posts about the a number of diverse Microsoft news bits I;ve read not too long ago, I decided to do a quick link listing. Here are several new goods that may be of curiosity:Microsoft is trimming some of the advantages it truly is offering to participants in its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program, no doubt because of cost-cutting actions affecting the organization general. Inside a be aware to MVPs (posted around the ActiveWin.com web page), Microsoft statements to get “expanding our investment in the MVP Award Program” with a new online MVP portal coming next year. But in the same be aware, officials acknowledge that they are cutting various the “less significant” rewards, as of October 1, including Business Store (MVP Bucks),
Office 2007 Pro, E-Academy,
Office 2010 Pro Plus Key, E-Reference Library and MS Press Book Reviews. The worldwide MVP conference is not cancelled; it;s on for mid-February 2010 (but in Redmond/Bellevue, not in Seattle).Microsoft is allowing shareholders to have a formal say about its executives; compensation. In Microsoft;s case, the “say on pay” input will be collected once every three years. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just got a 4 percent raise for fiscal 2009,
Windows 7 32 Bit, by the way (not counting bonuses). Microsoft is one of a growing listing of public companies adopting the say-for-pay provision. The first nonbinding vote on executive compensation happens in conjunction with this year;s shareholders; meeting on November 19.
Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky is slated to release a book later this year,
Office Professional 2010, co-authored with Harvard management professor Marco Iansiti that will offer insights into how to make a sizable organization not just survive,
Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Business, but thrive. The book will be published by John Wiley & Sons. Think of it a detailed analysis of Microsoft;s Windows client unit — which Sinofsky reorganized and pruned in order to get
Windows 7 done in a timely way and to create the groundwork for future Windows releases. (TechFlash;s Todd Bishop found a Barnes & Noble listing for the forthcoming title, — tentatively named “One Strategy!” and because of November 28.Microsoft has developed available another piece of its Azure cloud platform puzzle: The Azure management API. The API is meant for developers who need to deploy and manage the compute and storage components with the Windows Azure operating model. The Azure management API is REST-based and will allow developers to code against in their toolset of choice to manage their services.