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Microsoft 365 Gets Pricier: AI and Security Drive July 2026 Increase

Microsoft will raise prices for its commercial Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites starting July 1, 2026. The company announced increases ranging from 5% to 33% depending on the plans.

Liechtenstein Surpasses Switzerland with 25 Gbps Fiber Rollout

Telecom Liechtenstein will launch 25 Gigabit per second symmetric fiber internet nationwide on December 9. The Principality claims to become the first country offering such speeds to every household and business.

Windows 10 End-of-Life: One Week Left – What Now?

If you’re still running Windows 10, this concerns you. In exactly one week, on October 14, Microsoft will officially send Windows 10 to oblivion (and, as a side-effect, millions of PCs to waste). What does this mean? No more security updates, no bug fixes, no technical support. For an operating system that has been running on millions of devices worldwide for a decade, this is a significant moment.

UK Police to launch AI-based Crime Prevention – Minority Report getting real ?

In the middle of last summer, the UK government announced a new initiative to leverage artificial intelligence and data analytics for preventing crime before it occurs. This project, termed the “Concentrations of Crime Data Challenge,” aims to develop advanced mapping technology to enhance public safety across England and Wales.
Is AI the right path for safer streets ? And what about other examples of crime prevention systems ?

The Swiss e-ID: Navigating Digital Identity, Technology, and Public Trust

In September this year, the Swiss citizens are going to vote for or against an e-ID Act aiming at proposing an electronic version of the ID card. But, how does it work ? What are the criticisms ? This blog post provides several answers to these questions

SharePoint 2010 Evaluation Virtual Machine Available

The 8th of May, Microsoft released a set of two Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machines with the 2010 wave of Office products. It includes the following software : Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 R2 Office Communication Server 2007 R2 Visual Studio...

Docs.com – Sharing Office 2010 documents

Microsoft revealed couple of weeks ago a new service called docs.com. This service offers the possibility to share Office 2010 documents and integrate directly them in Facebook. In other words, it will add a new tab in your Facebook profile, named Docs, where you will...

Workflow Export – Import in SharePoint 2010

Designing a SharePoint 2010 workflow in Visio 2010 is just great. You can put the shapes on the design surface, draw the transitions, and it is really interesting for people that need visualization of their workflows. Unfortunately, this is where it stops. Because...

Office and SharePoint 2010 Available for MSDN subscribers

Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome on stage Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 !!! Since today, both products are available for MSDN subscribers, earlier than I expected to say the truth. At the time I am writing this post, I already started the download 🙂

Office and SharePoint 2010 in RTM stage

Friday last week, the SharePoint Team announced a major milestone in the SharePoint 2010 release process. One day after the TechDays in Geneva, Microsoft has frozen the code of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, meaning that it gives a go to release the software to the...

Problem accessing the web from your guest VMWare system ?

Because I had to move my virtual machines to VMWare to enable the 64-bits guest operating systems to be installed (for SharePoint 2010), I encountered a very weird problem. When using the NATed network, the guest OS was able to connect the Internet, but then, I had a...

17th Swiss SharePoint Club Meeting in Yverdon – Some Notes

The 17th Swiss SharePoint Club meeting took place yesterday the 24th of March at the HEIG-Vd. 5 sessions were in the agenda :
Customer experience at Cotecna : Intranet Setup with SharePoint 2007
Product Overview by Ventek International : Enterprise Search with FAST ESP Sharepoint 2010
Technology Overview by McNext : Migration path(es) from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
Customer experience at HEIG-Vd : SharePoint Online, Master thesis initiatives – SharePoint Competency Center
Product Overview by SQLi : SharePoint workflows with Nintex

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