Best of breed apps vs. apps in the big bundle
I love cooking. In the last couple of years I’ve added a few select items of cookware that are best in class. First, I bought a Round Dutch Oven. Soon after that, I managed to get roaster and a skillet from Le Creuset. The craftsmanship and the quality of their products is amazing. I even have a favourite colour, Marseille Blue! But, while I’d love to stock my whole kitchen with these products, there’s one small problem. They are quite expensive! Also, it would be overkill as the value I can get… Read More
Brainstorm, prototype and sketch with Microsoft Whiteboard app (preview)
Part of the challenge of working with teams that are geo-distributed is having a tool to work together and sketch or prototype new products or ideas together. Microsoft is previewing a new service, Microsoft Whiteboard app. The tool (at the time only available for Windows 10 users) allows you to have multiple people work with notes, images and free form drawing, this experience is much better if you have a touch screen but you can use your mouse to draw, drag or select elements on the whiteboard. Running a few tests I… Read More
New “Waffle” Menu in Office 365
Another day, another change in Office 365 land! This week the new waffle menu was made available to first release (first release allows Microsoft to push updates a bit faster on your tenant) users, I looked in my main tenant, and there it was, it all its glory! It’s a quite clean take on the apps menu that will not only bring your “pinned” apps but also recent/new documents you’ve viewed. The main benefits are: Cleaner UI Documents accessible from any area in Office 365 Pin/un pin certain Apps Other enterprise apps… Read More
Digital Workplace Crusaders 