After the announcement Monday that online versions of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint are now available to all Microsoft customers, CIO caught up with Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division and talked about Microsoft's move into the cloud — and why a Web-based version of Office is taking forever.

MIT's JoAnne Yates talks about CrackBerry addicts, the "always online" life and how it affects workers, and the dangers of information overload.

WorkLight, a Web 2.0 start-up, helps transport enterprise data to consumer applications such as Facebook and iGoogle. In this Q&A, WorkLight's CEO says if you can do this securely, you should give users what they want — and you won't have to fork out the cash for SharePoint.

If you are recruited to work for a business that competes with your current employer, you could find yourself slapped with a big fat lawsuit over intellectual property theft, even if you did nothing wrong. Here's how to prevent that nightmare.

Controversial author says cloud approach is reliable enough for many apps, but warns about vendor lock-in.

How do they come up with technology product names like "BlackBerry" and Windows "Azure"? In this Q&A, David Placek, the guru whose company came up with those two and many more, takes us inside the product name game.

Ross Mayfield, president of Socialtext, a vendor that sells Web 2.0 technologies to enterprises, says this economic downturn could be an opportunity for Enterprise 2.0 firms like his to seize market share from IBM Lotus Connections and Microsoft SharePoint.

Scott Jones, technical product manager with Symantec Endpoint Virtualization. discusses virtualized browsers, Symantec and HP's collaboration efforts, and more.

ERP has been a two-horse race between SAP and Oracle for years. Microsoft's Chris Caren is battling to change that, with the company's Dynamics ERP and CRM products. Here's his take on what Dynamics is delivering to enterprises as compared with its entrenched rivals.

Heiliger really grills people with technical, math and problem-solving questions, so his potential hires had better be prepared to think on their feet. Here's why he favors that approach, and what he's learned so far from Facebook's rapid hiring spree.