Looks like Microsoft is getting stuff out the door on time these days. The latest to be announced (well, rumoured) is Office 2007 SP1. The word on the street is that the SP1 will include a new feature to get rid of the ribbon interface (joke).
(Via Mary Jo)
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A nice summary from Scott Guthrie about where ASP.NET, Silverlight and IIS7 are heading. I'm continually stunned at how productive Scott's team are – they seem to be pumping out new (and useful) stuff all the time.
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From Paul Hacker comes the TFS Times Newsletter. All managed by… Joomla.
(Via Jeff Beehler)
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Thanks to Brian Harry for highlighting how they are greatly improving the value of TFS licensing. For work item logging, your entire company can now log items without needing any additional CALs (you'll need to have the Standard Edition though).
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Tim Sneath give us the lowdown on why Silverlight will be released as 2.0. Personally I think it is the right decision. There is heaps of new stuff coming and calling it 1.1 is misleading.
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Summary: Flex is to Adobe as Silverlight is to Microsoft Silverlight is often referred to as Microsoft's version of Flash, however it is more correct to say it is Microsoft's version of Flex. You could say the following… Silverlight 1.0 = Flash Silverlight 2.0 = Flex [UPDATE: Silverlight 1.1 has been re-branded as Silverlight 2.0] Here's a very basic comparison of Flex and...
I'm hoping this is more than just green-speak. Press release here.
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There's still plenty of confusion out there about SharePoint, particularly around what is included in WSS versus MOSS. Part of the problem is that there is soooo much information about SharePoint that the simple details get lost… So, let's go through the various options, comparing WSS with MOSS Standard and MOSS Enterprise as simply as possible. I'll exclude technicalities (eg...
A step in the right direction, and again Zoho leads the way. They've Google Gears enabled their Zoho Writer, so that it can be used offline. One day all 'online' apps will work offline seamlessly and we'll look back and wonder why this whole 'need to be connected' hurdle was ever designed in the first place. But then again, when that day arrives we'll all probably have...
Well, not really. This wonderful interview with Stephen by Time magazine is a nice rebuke to what the media tells us is important news. IF the media is right about what is important to the public, then we should be making Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan the Time Persons of the Year. Or so claims Stephen. He makes a good point. Technorati Tags: Stephen King, Time Magazine, Britney Spears, Lindsay...