Monthly archive for May 2016

4th Week at Microsoft!

By Tom Resing on May 12, 2016 / events, SharePoint 2016 / Leave a comment

I’m closing in on my 4th week as a Microsoft employee. It’s been great meeting new people, reconnecting with others and generally learning about and exploring this vast place and my new role. Some highlights so far have been watching The Future of SharePoint event live on-campus with product team members, receiving my first big assignment of documenting the SharePoint mobile app and participating in the Collab 365 Summit which had a live segment filmed about a mile from my office. Collab

The new SharePoint app – it’s Mobile!

By Tom Resing on May 7, 2016 / Mobile, Office 365, SharePoint 2016 / Leave a comment

3 years ago, SharePoint Apps were a development topic. Last year, the “app model” name was changed to the “add-in model.” May 4th, 2016, with the announcement of “the SharePoint mobile app,” last year’s change seems more appropriate. I’ve always thought “the app model” suggested mobile app development. The change to “the add-in model” has been kind of hard to explain to developers. Whether or not the change in name was necessary to introduce the SharePoint mobile app, the mobile app