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:

Everytime Apple releases a product, media brand it as the Microsoft/Windows killer.

People just don’t get it, Microsoft and Windows aren’t going to die. The only time it would get eradicated is when the planet is hit by a gigantic meteorite.

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I heard a lot of buzz about SharePoint on iPhone and iPad in the last two years and silently I am happy that there aren’t any applications that support this natively since it would be an added mobile device in our architecture and development tasks.

I already lose work and life balance on the existing list of mobile devices being tested on SharePoint and I am content on testing SharePoint on the Safari mobile browser in iPhone. But it seems luck has run out and Newsgator went ahead and released the first native SharePoint application on iPhone dubbed as SharePoint iPhone client. Aside from this, they have another application also capable of running on Apples’ iPad. Great, an additional device for our testing.

Apple is known as the fire starter of technology products but given the power of netbooks, the company might rethink their strategy and join the bandwagon instead.

They have recently hired Ivan Krsctic who was once a security director at the One Laptop per Child project. The company has announced that they want to improve the security of their operating system.

I think that’s bull, they have just released their latest OSX and Ivan doesn’t have the credentials for security improvements for laptops or desktop PCs. The security in place for OLPC is different from that of conventional computers and my take is that Apple is putting their foot in the door on the netbooks market by getting people from this industry to start brainstorming and conceptualizing their next move.

Microsoft has already recognized the explosion of the netbooks market along with the rest of the vendors and look into Apple joining this market.

Microsoft is testing the fashion industry and they have just released a number of Geeky designs to jumpstart this vertical business venture. The picture above is one of the designs they have from their Softwear by Microsoft. Earlier this year, Microsoft has announced their intentions of creating their own Microsoft retail store, similar to the Apple store business. Are these shirts part of their sales inventory to boost consumers to visit their Microsoft stores?

I am not sure about the initial designs as they don’t look hip or cool. Or maybe they just want the geek market who would definitely appreciate these designs? If so, they can learn a lot from ThinkGeek.

Microsoft has finally decided to open their own retail store instead of just pushing their products to their retail partners and associates. They have built a powerful ecosystem that relies heavily on vendors.

While this move is being reported as an attempt to copy Apple, this business model is not unique to the fashion company (I meant Apple company) and Microsoft have the resources to create a high-level consumer experience while keeping the price of their products at a minimum.

Microsoft products such as Zune, XBox 360, windows, etc. could do very well especially when they provide a level of user experience and support better than mid-range retailers. How about PCs? It is not yet clear whether Microsoft plans to have their own hardware or sell Dell and other brand PCs. The store is not a Microsoft store if it doesn’t have Windows, and Windows wouldn’t be what it is without PCs.

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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