Office 2010: Product Guides

Dynamics GP 2010 will be the focus of this weekend’s Microsoft Convergence, the annual conference for Microsoft Dynamics customers and partners.  The upgrade will be available beginning May 1, 2010.

Of the many enhancements, further integration with SharePoint and Office are key improvements.

More information can be found at the official US launch site.

Our crack team of investigative reporters at Gizmodo visited the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain to get us the latest update on the new Windows Phone 7 platform.  Quite simply, it looks fantastic.  Now we know what the chaps in Redmond having been doing while Apple was gobbling up smartphone market share.  Windows Phone 7 is a complete overhaul from their current Windows Mobile 6.5.  But is Microsoft too late?  Not a chance.

Windows Phone 7: First Video – Windows phone 7 – Gizmodo

MapPoint 2010 is a huge improvement over MapPoint 2009.  For one, Microsoft fixed a few things that they "broke" in MapPoint 2009.  Longtime readers of this blog know I was hugely disappointed with MapPoint 2009.  MapPoint 2009 got rid of all the hundreds of great pushpins that were available in previous versions of MapPoint and replaced them with a handful of ugly pushpins.  I am happy to announce that Microsoft heard our gripes, and all the great pushpins are back.  Another incredibly stupid decision in MapPoint 2009 was to remove the map view back and forward abilities.  That inane decision has been reversed and it’s back in MapPoint 2010.  But MapPoint 2010 isn’t just about correcting the blunders in MapPoint 2009 and refreshing the mapping data.  There are some great new features as well.  There has been some nice features added involving the pushpin datasets.  Now you have the ability to hide and show entire sets of pushpins.  I can have multiple data sets on my maps and not have all them showing at once all the time.  You can also show and hide all the pushpin info boxes at once instead of opening and closing all of them one-by-one.  There are more selections of Nearby Places although they still have not put the “Zoos” choice back, but don’t get me started on that again.  The ability to reroute is now significantly easier.  You need only click and drag the route over to the new road.  Microsoft has claimed you could easily re-route for years, but this is the first time they’ve actually delivered.  Unfortunately, it adds “stops” to the trip plan every time you re-route, but it’s a huge step in the right direction.  I may not need to use the “avoid area” trick anymore.  There’s also some nice exporting features in this release such as sending routes to GPS devices and exporting to the industry standard GPX format.  Plus, there are even more great features that I didn’t even mention!

Overall, I’m very excited about MapPoint 2010, but you don’t need to take my word for it.  You can download free trial versions of MapPoint 2010 and Streets & Trips 2010 and see for yourself.

Bing – MapPoint 2010 Released – Bing Maps Blog – Bing Community

Microsoft’s Marketing Stunt Goes Viral: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance

He also described Apple’s impact on Microsoft sales this year as ‘a rounding error’, saying that; "Apple’s share globally costs us nothing."

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