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:

This is a video which gives you 5 tips before you upgrade to Windows 7.

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A fake Microsoft Security Essentials 2010 removes the real Microsoft Security Essentials and mimics its activities. This fake software is destructive to your desktop as it changes its background and settings, kills processes, and informs you that legit processes are infected.

I am not feeling good on SharePoint 2010 the same way I felt good about SharePoint 2007. On a number of proposals and presentations, clients are putting off SharePoint 2010, for another year or two as they have everything they need on SharePoint 2007.

Also, clients have already developed a 2-3 year roadmap for SharePoint 2007 which includes building the skills, purchasing requirements, securing resources and the like; that disrupting this plan for SharePoint 2010 doesn’t stand out as a priority item.

It was a different case with SharePoint 2007 wherein the features were already overdue or just in time as SharePoint 2003 lacked so many features that rendered it productive in the current environment when SharePoint 2007 was launched.

Microsoft says that SharePoint is an integral component of Windows 7 Phone series which means they are pushing their Windows 7 platform to enterprise users. What happened to the consumer market? We really know where the bulk of the consumers are—iPhone, Nokia.

Anyways, in the last decade the mobile integration of SharePoint has been horrendous and a simple check mark on the settings of List doesn’t magically transform your portal into a full blown Mobile ready application. The mobile capability that SharePoint offered is archaic at best with only a skinless interface showing you metadata on various lists and content.

Windows 7 has not yet been released but I am already reading some predictions on what Windows 8 is going to be. In Randall Kennedy’s post, he discusses the items that would most likely be included in the Windows 8 release. Pretty early, but some interesting items which include:

Prediction 1: No more 32-bit

Prediction 2: Mesh is big

Prediction 3: App-V makes its mark

Prediction 4: Windows gets fatter

Prediction 5: Subscribe today

Milo’s point of view

It is too early to think about Windows 8, or about the successor of Microsoft Windows 7. The features in Windows 8 would largely depend on the success of Windows 7. If latest operating system of Microsoft fails to eclipse Windows XP, we might see a new operating system built on cloud computing sooner than we expect. If Windows 7 becomes successful and indications show that it would most likely be able to overtake Windows XP then Microsoft might hang on to this software longer than we expect.

As for the features above:

Prediction 1: No more 32-bit—I don’t think Microsoft is removing the 32-bit, unless a strong deal with Intel makes this happen.

Prediction 2: Mesh is big—It has always been big, let’s see.

Prediction 3: App-V makes its mark—I agree on this one.

Prediction 4: Windows gets fatter—I don’t think so, maybe the Ultimate would be fatter but I see Microsoft pushing for thinner software that would be able to run on netbooks or smartbooks.

Prediction 5: Subscribe today—It would always be a balance between subscription and packaged software. Microsoft would still push the operating system wrapped in a box.

References

Randall Kennedy’s post can be read here— Enough with Windows 7—Look Ahead to Windows 8.

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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