Pocketnow.com published a comparison between both phones, concentrating on home-screen functionality. They make some good comments. I hope both companies are listening. The video is below.
Microsoft
6 categories with 43 BPOS resources – it is all you need to start, migrate and administrate
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On the Microsoft TechNet blogs, a blog posting by Oscar Maqueda gives a good and complete overview of all available BPOS resources. Oscar’s blog is in Spanish so most non-Spanish people will probably not normally end up there. For your convenience I have copied the English part of his list here. It is an impressive list of all the resources in one place. Enjoy.
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Category 1: according to Oscar this is “Must read and keep on a USB key”.
In other words, this is core content that you cannot be without. You will constantly refer back to it and it needs to be refreshed every month.
Service Descriptions and white papers:
The absolute best resource is the Deployment Site . There will find a link to the holy grail of BPOS-S technical information related to migration: The BPOS Deployment Guide.
Useful detail can be found in a more summary form in the Service Descriptions:
- Exchange Online Standard
- SharePoint Online Standard
- Office Communications Online Standard
- Blackberry and Mobile Details
Category 2: according to Oscar this is “Must read, subscribe and check when updated”.
- BPOS Team Blog
THE place you will get the latest info on new services, updates and content - Microsoft Online Service Notifications RSS Feed
If there are problems with the service this is the official notification vehicle. - Business Productivity Online Suite Onboarding and Discovery Checklist for Partners
Partner only resource that details pre-sales discovery detais.
Category 3: Online Training
A) Public
- “How do I” videos – quick and useful, but keep an eye on the dates. Services change regularly, webcasts don’t.
- Getting Your Directory and Mail Content Into Microsoft Online Services: An Overview
- Migration to BPOS
- Microsoft Online Services, the choice of businesses – BPOS or Google
- BPOS 101: Exploring Microsoft Online Services
- Using PowerShell with Microsoft Online Services
- Filtering and Archiving with Exchange Online
B) For Partners
Start here:
- BPOS Administration and Onboarding 1 day online training class:
BPOS end to end: Level 100-200
Then:
- Administering Exchange Online : 3 hours focus on Exchange Online and
- Administrating SharePoint Online: 3 hours focus on SharePoint Online
Then:
- Migration and Onboarding Deep Dive :
The Deployment Guide (above) should be used the most current reference. This deep dive is still solid though and contains detailed content on migration and pre-sales discovery. Level 200-400.
Then:
- See Depth Guidance references
Category 4: Online References
- FAQ – quick reference for international availability
(at bottom) and other useful topics - Microsoft Online Services TechCenter on Technet
- BPOS Documentation on Technet
- BPOS Online Help
- Securing Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure: How we do it. Useful info about what goes on tour data center(s). Includes more than BPOS.
- Security in Business Productivity Online Suite. Details on BPOS data center specifically.
Category 5: Depth Guidance
- Infrastructure Planning Guides – very good for walking through evaluating on-premise to online migrations.
- Developers Guides: what you can and can’t do with web services and BPOS.
Partners:
- See the Partner Migration Toolkit :
This is a key resource that is not as well known as it should be.
Category 6: Tools
- Speed Testing paper
(Guidance for Microsoft Online Services Multinational Customers) - Network connectivity analysis tool in North America (United States) data center
- Network connectivity analysis tool in Europe (Ireland) data center
- Network connectivity analysis tool in Asia-Pacific (Singapore) data center
- Microsoft Online Services Diagnostic and Logging Support
- Office Communicator for BPOS
- Microsoft Online Sign in Client
- Outlook 2003 Sign in Connector
- Mac Sign in Client
- Migration Tool – 32 bit: Regularly updated with new powershell capabilities.
- Migration Tool – 64 bit: Regularly updated with new powershell capabilities.
- Directory Synch
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Nokia brings in Microsoft exec to replace CEO
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“Espoo, Finland –Nokia‘s Board of Directors has appointed Stephen Elop President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of September 21. Elop currently heads Microsoft‘s Business Division. Before joining Microsoft, Elop held senior executive positions in a number of US-based public companies, including Juniper Networks, Adobe Systems Inc. and Macromedia Inc. He holds a degree in computer engineering and management from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, which is his home country.”
See the official PR here.
Microsoft ‘Orleans’ – a cloud programming language?
Mary-Jo Foley from ZDNet.com writes about a new codename that has emerged from the Microsoft laboratories: Orleans.
“Orleans is a new programming model designed to raise the level of abstraction above Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). Orleans introduces the concept of “grains” as being units of computation and data storage that can migrate between datacenters. Orleans also will include its own runtime that will handle replication, persistence and consistency. The idea is to create a single programming model that will work on clients and servers, which will simplify debugging and improve code mobility.”
This is a very cool idea, especially if it is connected into .NET and the good usability of the Microsoft software development toolkits.
Read the full article at the source….