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Constructing A SharePoint History: Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
Wow. Why fight over the editing of Wikiword when you can make up your own history? The Microsoft Office - SharePoint Blog team is busy trying to reshape history from the inside out. This bookmark is going to require a ton of highlights and comments.
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it was clear customers wanted a more integrated and comprehensive solution from us. As just one example, they told us like they liked the WYSWIG HTML editing of SharePoint Team Services and the Web Part declarative and reusable editing of SharePoint Portal but wanted to use both models on the same site?
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On the application side, we were hearing customers wanted Office to go beyond personal productivity to organizational productivity and we had to decide whether Microsoft would invest in content management, portals, unified communications, business intelligence and many other new scenarios.
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AppleInsider | Microsoft takes aim at Google with online Office suite
Microsoft has announced the next generation of MSOffice, and it turns out to be SharePoint at the center of the deep connected MSOffice "rich client" desktop productivity environment, and, an online Web version of MSOffice. Who would have guessed that one of the key features to MOSS would be universal accessibility to and collaboration on MSOffice documents - without loss of fidelity? No doubt the embedded logic that drive BBP's (Bound Business Processes) is also perfectly preserved.
Excerpt: "Office Web Applications, the online companion to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications, allow you to access documents from anywhere. You can even simultaneously share and work on documents with others online," Microsoft says on its Office 2010 Technical Preview site. "View documents across PCs, mobile phones, and the Web without compromising document fidelity. Create new documents and do basic editing using the familiar Office interface."
The OpenDocument Foundation breaks with OpenOffice ODF: Getting the (Share)Point About Document Formats [LWN.net] - Gly Moody
Good article from Glynn Moody explaining the OpenDocument Foundation's decision to drop OpenOffice ODF for HTML+. That date of this article is November 13th, 2007. The Foundations announcement comes after ISO members vote down OpenXML as an ISO standard. Microsoft however does not give up. They come back to ISO by responding in detail to every objection, pushing for a February 2008 BRM. Following the BRM, and contingent on Microsoft's promise to fix OpenXML, join the OASIS OpenOffice ODF work, and, support ODF 1.1 in MSOffice using a plug-in, ISO votes again. In March of 2008, ISO approves OpenXML.
In May of 2009, Microsoft releases an MSOffice plug-in fully compliant with ODF 1.1 (ISO 26300). Although conforming to and in full compliance with ODF 1.1, the world is shocked to learn that the interop between MSOffice ODF and OpenOffice ODF is worthless. Which is exactly what the Foundation had been arguing for years. ODF "compatibility, interop and compliance" had to be fixed prior to Microsoft's expected implementation!!!!! Otherwise, ODF would be shredded.
Told you so!
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The OpenDocument Foundation was formed in 2005, with the mission "to
provide a conduit for funding and support for individual contributors to
participate in ODF development" at the standards body OASIS.
So, at a time when backing for the ODF format seems to be gaining in
strength around the world, eyebrows were naturally raised when Sam Hiser, the
Foundation's Vice President and Director of Business Affairs,
wrote on October 16 that it was no longer supporting ODF:
Under the Covers: Alfresco's SharePoint Services (WSS) Killer
Reverse engineering the MS Office SharePoint Protocol:
CMSwire has a good review of Alfresco's latest feature, the repurposing of MSOffice as an editing and collaboration front end for the Alfresco Open Web Content Management System. <br>
Microsoft ha sof course been very busy re-purposing MSOffice as a front end editor - shared collaboration space for their own MOSS WebStack - CMS. Thanks to the EU, Microsoft was forced to publicly disclose integration and interop methods used to wire together MOSS. Alfresco seized the disclosure to create their own re-purposing.<br>
IMHO, this is exactly how the Microsoft monopoly needs to be cracked. Instead of replacing MSOffice at great cost and disruption to business users, tap into the same re-purposing methods Microsoft uses as they try to shift that monopoly center from the desktop to a proprietary MS Web.<br>
"... The Office SharePoint Protocol is one of the big achievements that Alfresco has come out with to sell Alfresco Share as a true viable alternative to SharePoint in the enterprise.... <br>
"... Microsoft Office is still the most widely used productivity suite in organizations today. That's a huge reason why SharePoint has been so successful — Microsoft created a protocol to enable Office to interact directly with SharePoint. This means you don't have to leave the discomfort of our Office application to create, edit and manage documents and calendar events in SharePoint."
For Alfresco, the break came when Microsoft released a number of technical specifications to the public (including the spec for SharePoint 2007) in the name of interoperability.
Alfresco used this information to implement the Office and SharePoint protocols as a compatible server — thus the same functionality users get working between Office and SharePoint, they can now also get natively with Office and Alfresco.
InformationWeek 500: Monsanto's Collaborative Growth Plan -- Emerging Technology -- InformationWeek
"By combining unified communications, IM, SharePoint, and blogs and wikis while protecting its IP, Monsanto is advancing teamwork."
InformationWeek has posted a number of technology innovation-implementation profiles. Monsanto is one of the best "collaborative" examples, although it's very similar to the model GE presented at Office 2.0. These colalborative concepts go back 1998, and the early work Ars Digita was doing with the first "Knowledgeware" - wiki applications. The first "use case" to be published was that of the global electronics giant, Siemanns. Notice the SharePoint - MSOffice integration as a key element in the Monsanto collaboration strategy. That connection "forced" Monsanto to rebuild their document databases and portals using SharePoint and SQL Server.
Will Collaboration Pit Cisco Against Microsoft, Google? - GigaOM
the growing popularity of cloud computing means corporate data centers will increasingly start to look like Internet data centers. Cisco has already recognized that as the “network” continues to become the focal point around which our digital personal and work lives revolve, the opportunity to make money will be immense. That’s why Chambers never misses an opportunity to talk about “collaboration.”
For instance, in the press release announcing the company’s latest numbers, he said: “We believe we are entering the next phase of the Internet as growth and productivity will center on collaboration enabled by networked Web 2.0 technologies.” But Cisco isn’t the only one with this vision — Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) are thinking along these lines as well, and are much further ahead in the game.
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Add Sticky Note“The spectacular growth of SharePoint is the result of the great combination of collaboration and information management capabilities it delivers,” Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates said back in March. “I believe that the success we’ve seen so far is just the beginning for SharePoint.”
- Not exactly. What Chairman Bill leaves out is the integration with MSOffice advantage SharePoint has over all other portal-cms- document processing systems - on 2008-09-17
Why Cisco paid $3.2B for WebEx? - GigaOM
“SharePoint is the definitive OS or platform for the middle tier,” Ballmer explained. It is the “missing link” (my words, not his) between personal productivity and line-of-business applications
InformationWeek 500 Trends: Web 2.0, Globalization, Virtualization, And More -- InformationWeek 500
What the InformationWeek 500 data tells us about the use of emerging technologies.
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Web 2.0 is one of the trendiest ideas in tech, for instance, but there are entire industries where not one company in our survey cites it as a top productivity improver. Meantime, adoption of some more tactical technologies, such as WAN optimization, has exploded in the last year.
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critical trends, from Web 2.0 to globalization to virtualization
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Microsoft's Response to Google Chrome... - Google Docs
Matt Assay has posted an interesting article arguing the point of view that Google Chrome will have a difficult time catching up Microsoft SharePoint. While everyone is moving to the Web, many will be surprised ot find that Microsoft is already there. Very surprised.
Microsoft's response to Google Chrome? SharePoint | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News
It's surprising how many people are still asleep at the wheel while Microsoft continues to nurture perhaps its fastest-growing product (in terms of revenue) ever: SharePoint.
The Web has been aflutter with Google Chrome discussions since it was released last week, much of it centering on Google's strategy to drive a stake through the heart of Microsoft's Windows business by shifting the operating system to the cloud, rendered in a browser.
Such talk overlooks the fact that Microsoft has already started to move its own Windows business to the cloud, rendered in SharePoint.
Atlassian Confluence Connects with Office, MOSS
Atlassian has released the latest version of their Confluence enterprise wiki software, officially releasing their SharePoint Connector and a new Connector that will make many MS Office and Open Office users happy.
Microsoft Unleashes Stream of Docs in the Name of Interoperability
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced the release of Version 1.0 technical documentation for Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint 2007 and Exchange 2007 as an effort to drive greater interoperability and foster a stronger open relationship with their developer and partner communities. They also posted over 5000 pages of technical documentation on Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint binary file formats on the MSDN site royalty-free basis under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise (OSP).
J. Boye 2008 Report Cautions on Using SharePoint for Public Websites
Report on why organizations are moving to Sharepoint - and the mistakes they are making. This report, Best Practices for Using SharePoint for Public Websites - A Business Person’s Guide, outlines some of the thought processes organizations have gone through when selecting SharePoint for their public facing websites, some project recommendations and dispels some of the often heard arguments for a SharePoint-based solution.
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- Synergy with MS Office
- Match for current and future requirements
- A Safe choice in terms of vendors and product viability
Arguments for Using SharePoint
Probably one of the most interesting sections in the report deals with the three most common arguments organizations have for implementing SharePoint including:We won’t give away the details on how these arguments are dispelled but suffice it to say that organizations do tend to over think some issues and under think others resulting in decisions that are not always the best for their needs.
SharePoint (MOSS) Disrupts Enterprise CMS Market
cmswire article about MOSS 2007 and the impact SharePoint will have. White paper (pdf) from Clearview Software: 9-21-2007
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- The ECM market became white hot.
With the big-time players in IT (EMC, IBM, Oracle) making acquisition plays left and right, Microsoft realized that there was a huge revenue stream to be tapped into. But why did Microsoft not jump on the acquisition bandwagon and instead chose to invest in its existing product? The answer to that question can be found in the next bullet point. - The Microsoft Office productivity suite maintained its dominance on the desktop.
Although applications like OpenOffice attempted to usurp market share from the ubiquitous Word and Excel, organizations across the globe continued to standardize on the .doc and .xls formats for word processing and spreadsheets respectively. Therefore, who better to provide a content management system for these formats than the company who invented them. However, the third trend shows where Microsoft’s real challenge came from. - The rise of the online desktop, Google Apps in particular, strikes the first semblance of fear in the Redmond-based giant.
- The ECM market became white hot.
The lock-in battle shifts to Sharepoint | Blankenhorn - ZDNet.com
August 2007 discussion about SharePoint. Everythign projected in this article is happening - including the proprietary file format and protocol lock-in
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On the surface SharePoint is merely a document management system which lets everyone in your company share and find Office documents easily. But critics like our own Matt Asay call it a Trojan Horse, which will bind companies which deploy it to Microsoft forever.
You can put together everything SharePoint does using open source projects, but it takes work. You can combine Alfresco (from the Electronic Content Management (ECM) software company Matt works for), the Liferay portal, JasperSoft for reporting, and Zimbra’s e-mail server. Throw in some Jive forums and you’re more than done.
But what does that cost, really, compared to just using something from Microsoft which already works with your current Office applications? Exactly.
Once companies start using SharePoint, Asay worries, there is no way for them to ever ditch Microsoft applications and file formats. SharePoint is tied to those formats, and as the share fills the cost of switching away rises exponentially.
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos? | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Discussion about the impact SharePoint is having: based on Boston 2008 Enterprise 2.0 Conference
- Good question: when will Groove and SharePoint be integrated? Or are they and we just don't see it becaue MSOffice is the "client" instead of tha tclunky Groove client? - garyedwards on 2008-06-24
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Some of the next generation collaboration platforms are succeeding precisely because they are silo bunker busters. The problem of dozens of digital filing cabinets full of thousands of iterations of hard to find documents within enterprise environments is arguably being solved by the new generation of nimble project contextual tools. Taxonomies and tagging, threaded discussion, wikis and other ‘Enterprise 2.0‘ tools are an alternative solution to the problem of generating mountains of hard to find silo’d information and associated email.
Microsoft have a fabulously lucrative franchise with their Office suite of Word, PowerPoint, Excel et al desktop products. A huge issue in the enterprise space is blizzards of email containing links to documents created with these products on shared drives, or iterations actually attached to the mail messages. Add mobile users on laptops with intermittent connection and you also have serious synch headaches.
Bamboo MashPoint: A free Data Integration Platform for SharePoint | MOSS - Office SharePoint Server
Bamboo has cracked MOSS, releasing a free data integration service called "MashPoint". Very cool. Espeially interesting are all the Windows Services exposed by the crack! For anyone trying to understand the depth of connectivity between the Windows MSOffice-Outlook desktop and the MS Web-Stack (Exchange-SharePoint-SQL SErver), Bamboo MashPoint is a great place to start.
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Bamboo MashPoint and it’s a free data integration platform for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Note that important point — it’s for WSS3.0 which means you can start developing and integration enterprise applications into WSS without the need of MOSS and the Business Data Catalog.
Forget file formats. The battle is Sharepoint | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
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People are agog that Microsoft has announced support for Open Document Format (ODF), but I'm not sure why. This was a foregone conclusion once Microsoft figured out how to move lock-in above the file level to the content network.
In other words, to Sharepoint.
Microsoft has been hell-bent on getting enterprises to dump content into its proprietary Sharepoint repository, calling it the next Windows operating system. I call it the future of Microsoft lock-in.
Three myths Microsoft tells Russia | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
OSS Innovation and MS IPR :: OSS Interop vs. MS Interop :: OSS Profit vs. MS Profit
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Even so, we interoperate with Microsoft products, anyway, even without Microsoft's blessing. As just one example, which content collaboration/management system integrates most seamlessly with Microsoft Office? If you said, "Sharepoint," you would be wrong. The answer is Alfresco. Who has seamlessly integrated the Microsoft CIFS interface into a Java-based CMS? If you said, "Sharepoint," you would again be wrong. The answer, again, is "Alfresco."
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