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For May, 2009

May 29

Google Wave Challenges SharePoint, Microsoft Goes Bing!, Latest Windows 7 Build Leaked

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‘Google Wave’ May Challenge Microsoft SharePoint (Information Week)
Google on Thursday demonstrated its new Wave communication and collaboration platform at its conference in San Francisco, prompting spontaneous applause and a standing ovation by developers. Google Wave is a product, platform, and protocol that combines aspects of e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and blogs to allow real-time and stored collaborative messaging. It’s being made available as a technology preview to conference attendees. Most of the code is open source, and Google hopes that developers will extend the system and run their own Wave servers as part of a federated network. Continue reading this entry »
May 28

Bamboo Releases SharePoint Project Management Central, Windows 7 Touch Pack, Office 2010 Not So Special?

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5 Tips for Maximizing SharePoint (Intranet Journal)
Though tools such as Microsoft’s SharePoint can contribute to more streamlined processes in the workplace, what’s hard is changing employee actions and perception. Here are five tips to help your workforce adapt and accept portals as collaborative, successful ways of working. Each organization has its own unique culture, which can become a fundamental driving force. In an optimal culture, employees’ interests and the interests of the business are closely aligned, leading to a win-win situation. Collaborative portals such as SharePoint shift the way that people work — for the better, but the culture change that occurs can be exhausting. In order to alleviate some of these challenges, SharePoint360 suggests: Continue reading this entry »
May 27

3 Million Users of Windows 7 Beta, Firefox 3.5 Preview, Acrobat.com Challenges PowerPoint

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Software-as-a-service Comes of Age (IT Web)
The idea of buying software as an ongoing service rather than a shrink-wrapped product is not particularly new. Buying software-as-a-service (SaaS) is a bit like buying a pay TV subscription: you’re paying for something to happen, whether it’s having your payroll processed or being entertained. By contrast, buying software as a product is like buying a microwave or a TV: there’s an assumption that you’ll plug it in, use it until it’s no longer working and then buy a new one (that’s what upgrades really come down to). Continue reading this entry »
May 26

Microsoft Cancels EU Antitrust Hearing, SharePoint 2007 SP2 Licensing Issue, US Army Upgrades to Vista?

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Microsoft Warns Of SharePoint 2007 SP2 Glitch (Channel Web)
Microsoft has discovered a major bug in Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2 that renders SharePoint inaccessible after 180 days, and the company says it’s working on a hotfix. In a Thursday blog post, Jeff Teper, corporate vice president of the Office SharePoint Server Group at Microsoft, said the problem stems from the product expiration date being improperly activated during the installation of SharePoint 2007 SP2. This causes SharePoint to function as a trial version and shut down after six months. Continue reading this entry »

May 22

BI Comes to the Cloud, Azure Available in November, Slow Adoption Rate for Microsoft Online

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Microsoft Finally Uses SharePoint on its own Public Site (CMS Watch)
Perhaps it doesn’t strike you as a surprise, but Microsoft just launched the new SharePoint product site using SharePoint 2007.  Some might be surprised, since Redmond’s previous Web CMS product, “MCMS,” did not get this kind of love.  What’s telling, though  is that Microsoft is making this move so late in the product’s lifecycle, when otherwise Redmond is famous for making their internal teams run on “dog food” versions of software – really early alpha release). Continue reading this entry »

May 21

Free Ad-Supported Services from Microsoft, Windows Media Center Supports Netflix, Microsoft Patents Windows Restricting Functionality

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Five Truths You Must Know About SharePoint and Exchange (Search Win IT)
IT managers are often overwhelmed by SharePoint technology and unclear on how they can make the most of all of its features. Take the functionality between SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange. On any given day, IT managers receive hundreds of email messages, and many of them are critical and demand immediate decisions. But because of the volume, it becomes difficult to find, categorize and sort them all. Data becomes lost, and IT managers spend a great deal of time searching for information. In the process, they become less productive in other aspects of their jobs. Continue reading this entry »

May 20

Visual Studio 2010 Beta Available, Leaked Office 2010 Contains Virus, Win a Pass to SharePoint Conference 2009

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Evaluating SharePoint for Larger Enterprises (Intelligent Enterprise)
I recently offered a session at the J. Boye Philadelphia 09 conference. Speaking in the SharePoint track, I was able to interact with a number of the attendees, getting great insight into SharePoint implementations across very different businesses. Folks from companies like Wyeth, WestJet, and Ikea were either implementing SharePoint or in the early stages of planning for an implementation. Continue reading this entry »

May 19

Windows 7 Price Rumors, Office 2010 Preview Leaked, Windows 7 Adds Virtual Wi-Fi

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Office 2010 Preview Leaks to Web (Computer World)
Pirated copies labeled as the Technical Preview of Microsoft’s Office 2010 have leaked to the Internet, according to searches on popular file-sharing sites. Office 2010 joined the also-still-unfinished Windows 7 on BitTorrent Saturday. Searches on the Mininova.org as well as the Pirate Bay tracking site revealed leaked copies of both the 32- and 64-bit editions of the application suite. Commenters on the sites confirmed that the posted versions are tagged Technical Preview, claimed that they worked, but noted that they are unstable. Continue reading this entry »

May 18

Office 2010 Screenshots, SharePoint Server 2010 Beta Ready, Groove Becomes SharePoint Workspace

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Microsoft Readies SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (PC World)
Microsoft will launch an invitation-only SharePoint Server 2010 beta test in July with a select group of customers and then follow the program up with a public testing phase ahead of the Office 2010 release in the first half of next year. Earlier this week at its annual TechEd conference, Microsoft said the Office 2010 beta slated for July will not include the SharePoint Server 2010 beta. Continue reading this entry »

May 15

The Story Behind Windows 7 Compatibility, Get an Early Review Copy of Office 2010

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Microsoft’s Software Pipeline Set to Burst (PC World)
If there was one revelation at this week’s Microsoft TechEd conference it was that the company’s product pipeline is stuffed with new software timed for release in the next seven to 12 months that will force corporate IT to deftly plan and strategize how it wants to deal with the onslaught. Four of Microsoft’s major platforms are queued up to be released near the end of 2009 or early 2010. Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 are all slated to ship by year-end, as is the company’s new identity federation platform, Geneva. Continue reading this entry »

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