Digital Collaboration / Social Computing guide, a SharePoint Architect's view

SharePoint 2010 is coming straight ahead and we only need to wait a little over two months before the next version of SharePoint officially comes out.

As posted on Microsoft site:

Watch Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on May 12, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST.

The live keynote focuses on the next wave of productivity that delivers:

End user productivity across the PC, phone and browser
IT choice and flexibility
A platform for developers to build innovative solutions

Join the virtual launch event with Microsoft executives, product developers, partners and customers to:

The European Commission is expected to hand down approximately 392 Million dollars worth of fines to Microsofts for it’s alleged non-compliance with antitrust sanctions dating back to December 15.

In response to this, Microsoft’s associate counsel in Europe, Horacio Gutierrez says the company has done everything the EU has askeds.

Below is his letter to his subordinates:

As you have doubtless seen, over the past few days there has once again been heightened interest in our legal dispute with the EU, therefore I wanted to take this opportunity to fill you in on some specifics.

This particular peak in interest comes after a very long process of close co-operation between Microsoft and the European Commission on a number of issues and I wanted to give you some substantive background to complete the picture you may have received from the press.

A copy cat of Apple’s Macbook Pro keyboard, Microsoft’s Ultimate Keyboard features backlighting which will automatically lid once it senses a dim room or when a user approaches using proximity senses.

The design is sleek considering the tallest point is only one inch high plus it’s wireless range is up to 30 meters. The Ultimate Keyboard also includes smart recharging to allow users power-up both mouse and keyboard in one place.

Microsoft is yet to announce release date and pricing of this keyboard. This should not have a gazillion bugs like their Windows Vista and Ms Office, it should be announced with accurate timelines.

[tags]Microsoft, Ultimate Keyboard[/tags]

Now that explains why my profile views over at Netscape triped over night as well as my site’s page impressions. Netscape is no longer in beta version and Calacanis has announced it over his blog:

Netscape.com is no longer in beta… we just switched over the www.netscape.com domain! Getting crushed with traffic, but servers are holding up OK. We’re gonna need to add a lot more servers—people are a really getting into it….

What are you waiting for? How long can Digg hold up?

[tags]Netscape, Microsoft Competitor[/tags]

Microsoft Corporation said it will delay the release of Office 2007 to the latter part of 2006 instead of the initial October release to improve product performance. Likewise, the Office upgrade will be pushed later than the January target.

Both of Microsoft’s main income generators—Office and Windows Vista are now being delayed for quality improvements.

Contrary to a lot of analyst like Brent Thill of Citigroup who says: “The risk is that these persistent delays could indicate quality issues that may dissuade enterprises and consumers from becoming early adopters” and Jupiter Research analyst Joe Wilcox says: “It may not instill much confidence with some customers; Microsoft seems unable to meet its dates”;

Microsoft seems to have a change of heart in the open source community by announcing CodePlex, a shared-source portal is already live.

The formal launch included 35 projects with 20 of them initiated by Microsoft internally. Jon Rosenberg, director of source program community at Microsoft, said that the projects included in the launch were the best ones selected from more than 150 projects submitted by people outside their company.

This is a video on making a quick launch bar in Windows 7.

Video description

The one thing I hate about windows 7 is the lack of the quick launch bar. I tried other bars like rocketbar and such but it just wasn’t the same. Then at work one day I came up with this great idea. check it out.

Asus has announced their latest version of their revolutionary netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1000HE. The current introductory prices is at $399 USD.

As of their press release:

Asus Eee PC 1000HE are devices to support Lenovo S10.

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