A study conducted by Network World results in SharePoint being the de-facto standard for enterprises. More than half of organizations who have deployed Exchange Server are already using SharePoint and additional 12% of them would be deploying SharePoint in the next year.

I can’t understand why Microsoft is removing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from future releases of Windows Server 2008.

Prior releases of Windows Server 2008 had WSS 3.0 installed on it; but starting with candidate 1 of Windows Server 2008, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 would no longer be included in the package.

Windows Vista was promised to be more secure than its predecessor Windows XP and one year after its manufacturing release, Windows Vista only has 14 critical and important bulletins compared to 41 issued for Windows XP.

There is a lot of buzz on the 2 million sales generated by Apple on their Leopard release and there isn’t a lot of positive notes when Microsoft sold 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month, 40 million copies in the first 100 days, 60 million copies in July and now 88 million copies.

It is funny how a lot of reports says that Microsoft sales is declining, its incompatability issues have made people wary of upgrading or buying Windows Vista and so on and so forth. Now, with only a pathetic 2 million Leopard sales, media is saying that it is going to outsell Windows Vista with a staggering margin?

This latest update from Microsoft should fix a lot of USB problems and issues. While I could not find my favorite—“cannot remove drive…” even if I have do not have any opened or running files in it, I still welcome this update with open arms.

Go and get your update here.

How about you don’t need to type your user id and password everytime your Windows Vista box boots up? I think that is so cool especially when there is no risk of having someone else meddle with your computer.

Chris Pirillo has written the following steps for it:

For people who still insist in using Windows XP, these are the most important dates you need to know:

Windows XP SKUs, available until June 30, 2008.

Windows XP Starter Edition, available until June 30, 2010.

Windows XP for OEMs, available until January 31, 2009.

Windows XP support from Microsoft, until April, 2014.

The best news so far is the extension of Microsoft’s support of Windows XP until 2014.

Facts you ought to know when installing Windows Vista Service Pack beta 1.

1. Microsoft reports that installation is between 30 – 60 minutes.
2. The first 15 – 30 minutes is when the service pack prepares installation, during this time you can still use your computer freely.
3. The service pack would required to restart your machine for three times.
4. The installation of the Vista service pack requires a minimum of 7 GB of free hard disk. After installation portion of the 7 GB would be given back.
5. An annoying fact when installing Windows Vista Service Pack is its inability to tell you how many minutes is left before completing installation. The installation also doesn’t provide a progress status.

Microsoft Weblog wrote a while back (found here) about PC magazines’ 4 part series on customization and optimization Windows Vista.

The series is found below:

Customizing Windows Vista: Part 1
Customizing Windows Vista: Part 2
Optimizing Windows Vista: Part 1
Optimizing Windows Vista: Part 2

One of the coolest new features of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is the ability to create a Windows Vista Recovery Disk which allows you to run the most basic feature set of Windows Vista that can be used to correct problems and errors.

Below is the screenshot for the Windows Vista Recovery Disk taken from istartedsomething.