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Microsoft's Next Billion-dollar Business, Bing Continues to Grow, Use Google Docs and Go to Jail?

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What's Microsoft's Next Billion-dollar Business?(Hint: it's Not Search) (ZDNet)
While many company watchers continue to fret over what Microsoft will and won’t do to make money in the search/online advertising space, there are other less sexy Microsoft business units plodding successfully along with relatively little public notice. Until fairly recently, SharePoint was one of those businesses. But now that Microsoft’s SharePoint sales have passed the $1 billion barrier (they were $1.3 billion for fiscal 2009, which ended for Microsoft on June 30), what’s Microsoft’s next big thing? What products is the company betting on to become the next big, near-term hits?

Windows 7: Four Reasons to Upgrade, Four Reasons to Stay Away (Computer World)
The release of Windows 7 to manufacturing begins a tale of two operating systems: the one you want and the one you don't. It is packed with improvements and cool stuff, but it still carries a whiff of Vista that may put XP diehards off. That said, people who have gotten used to Vista will enjoy the fact that Windows 7 looks the same but acts a whole lot better.

Google Android To Challenge RIM For Enterprise Users (Information Week)
Google will soon compete harder with Research In Motion to nab mobile professionals with its Android mobile operating system, according to Google's mobile director Andy Rubin. Google's Linux-based mobile OS is on a handful of smartphones like the T-Mobile G1 and the myTouch 3G that primarily target casual consumers, but Rubin said Android could have more business-friendly features by the end of the year. The company plans to have bi-annual over-the-air Android updates that could add new services and abilities.

Microsoft Works to Claim Its Own Slice of the Cloud (Beta News)
It would appear to be the most lucrative new platform in all of computing: the "cloud" -- the space on the Internet from which applications and services can be presented to customers without the need for physical location. It was once called the "grid," but the fact that companies other than IBM managed to effectively rechristen the idea speaks to its inability -- along with everyone else's -- to build a clear and concise message around just what the cloud is.

Bing Sees Slight Uptick in July (CNET)
It'll probably still be a long time before people start saying things like "I'd spend some time binging that guy before I go on a date with him," but in the U.S. things are looking up for Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, which was unveiled in May. Web analytics firm StatCounter released analysis Monday stating that Bing slightly increased Microsoft's share of the U.S. search market in July. It now claims 9.41 percent, up from 8.23 percent in June.

Microsoft To Scrap Europe Version of Windows 7 (Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine)
Microsoft changed its plans about issuing a special European version of Windows 7 that would lack Internet Explorer, according to a company announcement. The about-face was explained by Dave Heiner, Microsoft's vice president and deputy general counsel, in a Friday blog post. He cited two main reasons why Windows 7E (for Europe) wasn't the best approach.

The Media Sells the Google Cloud. The Enterprise Buys Microsoft On-premises (CNET)
There's a big disconnect between what the media likes to write about and what the enterprise likes to buy. I suspect this is largely because the future is a much more interesting topic. Enterprise software might be a great topic for advertisers for Lunesta or Ambien, but it's woefully dull for everyone else.

Could Google Docs Land You In Jail? (Information Week)
Using Google Docs could put you in legal hot water if you're unable to comply with a subpoena to produce documents during a trial. That's one of the implications of cloud computing discussed during the American Bar Association's Business Law Section's Cyberspace Law Committee on Sunday.

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint 101 (Part 4) (Meet Dux)
Continuing with our SharePoint 101 screencast series recorded from SharePoint Saturday Baltimore, in Part 4, I demonstrate how to emulate network share navigation in document libraries without creating folders and explain how SharePoint permissions work.

Adding Themes the Supported Way! (zevenseas)
Yes! I’ve created a solution that allows you to add a theme the supported way, meaning that you don’t have to overwrite the default SPThemes.XML that resides in the LAYOUTS folder. The only thing you have to do is add the Theme to the THEMES folder and add your own custom SPThemes.XML somewhere in the 12 hive (a folder in the FEATURES folder could be a good example) and add this path to my solution and you’re done. Wink

Unit Testing SharePoint in a 64-bit Environment (Binary Wave)
I've recently upgraded all my development environments to pure 64-bit (except, of course, for Visual Studio, which continues to be a 32-bit laggard) to take advantage of the extra memory space available in x64. When working with really large lists and datasets, having less than 1GB for the w3wp process is self-defeating - it's not uncommon to crash the worker process even with paged gridviews. Plus, the performance of SharePoint and SQL Server on 64-bit is head and shoulders above x86, making it easier to work with multiple VM's at once.

SharePoint Reusable Content (SharePoint Branding & Design)
I can pretty much say I know my way around SharePoint… But every once in a while you learn about a feature that you never knew was there… Most of the time it's those annoying bugs that we call “features” but are true head against the wall things that make you go hmmmm… But this time it's a good thing…

Helping Users Get Around Your SharePoint Site: Customizing Navigation (Network World)
Microsoft has published some excellent resources to help site designers customize site navigation. Many of these resources are currently featured on the MOSS 2007 home page. Here's a guide to what's available.

Around Bamboo Nation
Bamboo Announces Free SharePoint Project Management Workshops in DC, Boston & New York (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Bamboo will be offering a series of free hands on workshops designed to help you leverage SharePoint for Project Management within your organization. These half day workshops will be offered in Washington DC (August 20th), Boston (September 1st) and New York (September 22nd & 23rd). To reserve your space today, please contact Emily Bien at 703-964-2018 or send email to emily.bien@bamboosolutions.com Space is limited and reservations will be accepted on a first come - first served basis.

SharePoint Job Listings**
SharePoint Administrator - Herndon, Virginia
The successful candidate will work as part of the existing SharePoint team supporting EIT shared service operations. The role is 50%/50% SharePoint Admin and SharePoint Developer. As Adminstrator, responsibilities include operations and maintenance of servers, site provisioning and configuration, site restores, migration of sites across farms, upgrading sites from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0. As developer responsibilities include working directly with customers to collect requirements, design, build and deploy SharePoint solutions while following the established PMO project intake process and SDLC methodology.

Business Analyst/Technical Writers w/SharePoint! - Bethesda, Maryland
The Business Analysts (BA)/Technical Writers (TW) will work as a member of an application development team specifically focused on a SharePoint solution, gathering and documenting requirements, writing technical documentation, and testing web-based applications.

Solutions Architect-"SharePoint" - Chicago, Illinois
As the SharePoint Solutions Architect, you will provide the technical leadership and staff mentorship for our custom developed, Microsoft centered applications. Your strong analysis, design, development, integration, and implementation skills using MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2003, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, and/or .NET Framework will be used as you lead envisioning, architecture, and design discussions. You will be part of the National Application Development Practice and will work to refine and enhance our implementation methodologies practice-wide. We’ll look to you to contribute to the development of strategies, policies, and best practices.

Microsoft Updates
If you take some SharePoint files offline, performance is very slow when you perform a full crawl for the remaining online files (KBAlertz - Microsoft Knowledge Base Article)
You archive some SharePoint files to a cheaper form of storage, such as a magnetic tape handler. Then you take those files offline. However, when you perform a full crawl for the remaining online files, performance is very slow.

Apply Information Rights Management to a list or library (Apply Information Rights Management to a list or library)
You can use Information Rights Management (IRM) with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites to help control and protect files that are downloaded from lists or libraries.

Demo: Share your data with your team (Help and How-to)
These days, information systems have to do more than just store your data. They must make it easy for you and your colleagues to work with information as a team. The ability to collaborate is not a luxury, but a key to business success.

Bamboo Partner Events*
August 4, Online, Breakthroughs in SharePoint for Consumer Goods Manufacturers Webinar - DataLan
August 6, Iselin, New Jersey, SharePoint Overview - The Technology for Business Today - DataLan
August 8, Sydney, Australia, SharePoint Saturday
August 11, Online, Advanced Topics in SharePoint - Replication Deep Dive Webinar - DataLan
August 13, Online, Business Process Automation from SharePoint to GP: Workflow, e-forms, Budgets. Avoid the BIG PAPER chase - InterDyn AKA
August 13, New York, New York, Business Process Automation and Workflow Design for SharePoint - DataLan
August 15, Adelaide, Australia, SharePoint Saturday
August 19-21, Reston, Virginia, Ensuring SharePoint Success: How to Effectively Deliver the Promise of SharePoint - Innovative-e
August 22, Copenhagen, Denmark, SharePoint Saturday
August 24-26, Washington, DC, Best Practices Conference - Mindsharp