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Novell, SAP, ThoughtWorks Ride Google Wave; Microsoft Courier Tablet UI Details; Microsoft Cuts 800 Jobs

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Microsoft's Live@edu to Add SharePoint (NetworkWorld)
Microsoft Wednesday said it will add SharePoint Online services to its Live@edu program that provides free e-mail and other collaboration tools to schools and universities. In addition, Microsoft said in the past four months the Live@edu service has added 5,000 new schools, which has raised number of users of the service into the tens of millions. The announcements were made at the annual Educause conference, which focuses on technology in education.

Enterprise 2.0: Novell, SAP, ThoughtWorks Ride Google Wave (InformationWeek)
Google Wave has been described by its creators as a reinvention of e-mail, but that's the least of it. Wave has also been described as a product, platform and protocol. And it's these later two aspects of the technology that will ultimately decide Wave's success or failure.

Microsoft Optimistic About Rapid Windows 7 Migration (Network Computing)
Microsoft launched its new operating system on October 22 but many of its customers were already testing it in live environments months before the launch date. However, the fact remains that more than 70 percent of customers still use Windows XP. Many Vista users downgraded to XP. Windows XP and Vista users are thrilled with the robustness, security and features of Windows 7, but the usual practice is to wait for Service Pack 1. Network Computing spoke to Rajan Anandan, MD, Microsoft India and customers such as NIIT and Maruti Suzuki India, to understand how soon this migration will happen. Some CIOs also shared their views and plans for Windows 7.

LEAKED: Microsoft Courier Tablet User Interface Details (Mashable)
Two still mythical tablet devices, the Microsoft Courier and the Apple Tablet, are probably the hottest and most coveted devices that do not yet officially exist. To further fuel the anticipatory gadget lust, Gizmodo has scored an in-depth look at the former’s user interface and overall design.

Microsoft Cuts Another 800 Jobs (The Wall Street Journal)
Microsoft Corp. announced 800 layoffs Wednesday, expanding the scale of a cost-reduction program it announced at the beginning of the year. Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said in January that it planned to eliminate 5,000 jobs by 2010 but has now expanded the program by 800 jobs, a spokesman said. The most recent cuts are expected to bring to a close the first major round of layoffs in the company's 34-year history.

Microsoft CEO Eyes Yahoo Partnership Outside U.S. (Reuters)
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company could look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo outside the United States, if it gets regulatory approval. Earlier this year Microsoft and Yahoo signed a 10-year Web search partnership to challenge Google Inc, a pact that U.S. and European antitrust regulators are evaluating.

Microsoft vs. Google: When it Comes to the Cloud, It's War (The Industry Standard)
"All warfare is based on deception," goes the famous line attributed to Sun Tzu in the Art of War. It may very well be the operating principle that both Google and Microsoft have taken to heart in their battle for dominance of the office desktop and cloud.

Amazon Girds for Cloud Battle with Microsoft (eWeek)
Stating that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a solid footing in the infrastructure-as-a-service business, Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of Amazon.com, noted that new companies entering the cloud computing space will need to compete on the merits to gain credibility.

Around the Blogosphere
Is Gradual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 Really Dead? How is Upgrade Better? (SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land)
In the Upgrade to SharePoint 2007 there were 3 popular methods. In Place, Gradual, and Database Attach. In place was a scenario that many of us took as a no starter and many of us even went so far as to say NEVER do it. Now the message is there are two methods for upgrade. In place and Database attach. Despite the fact that gradual upgrade as we knew it is dead, what we got from gradual upgrade we still have. What do I mean?

SharePoint 2010 Changes in Rendering (Andrew Connell)
In SharePoint 2007 many customers provided lots of feedback to Microsoft… ok, they complained… that the markup generated by SharePoint 2007 (which also meant WSS 3.0 & ASP.NET 2.0) was not clean, concise or friendly to accessibility requirements. What’s new in the SharePoint 2010 generated markup story…

Content Deployment – The Complete Guide – Part 5 – Quick Deployment (Stefan Goßner)
Quick Deployment Concepts - Quick deployment enables authors to select specific items to be quick deployed as soon as possible. The problem here is that authors are usually not allow to start timer jobs. To overcome this limitation it is required to store the information about which items have to be quick deployed at a place where a normal author of the site collection has write permission. And this is a list inside the source site collection. The quick deploy job that performs the actual deployment has to read the information about the items to be quick deployed from this list when it runs.

Create a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center – Part 02 (End User SharePoint)
I’m going to continue from yesterday’s overview for creating a Multi-Media Resource Center in SharePoint with a drilldown of how I created a customized list to handle the display of external video content. The problem we are trying to resolve is how to manage access to external video content that is not stored in SharePoint.

Around Bamboo Nation
Coming Soon: Bamboo Conductor for Workflows (The Bamboo Team Blog)
At the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference, we started talking to some attendees about an exciting new product we'll be releasing soon as a beta in Bamboo Labs. I thought I'd take a minute to let anyone who wasn't there in on the good news. In the next few weeks, Bamboo will be a releasing a new workflow creation and management solution for SharePoint called Bamboo Conductor ™. Bamboo has a long history of providing web parts and solutions that add new features (or improve existing ones) within SharePoint. With Conductor, we're taking the next logical step, and helping our customers leverage SharePoint to quickly and easily automate their business processes.

SharePoint in North Carolina with StreamLogic (The Bamboo Team Blog)
On Thursday October 29th, our partner StreamLogic hosted an event in Charlotte, NC at the Microsoft facility to bring local users together to learn about SharePoint and how it solves common business problems, helps streamline business processes, enhances project management and to hear SharePoint 2010 news straight back from the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas!

SharePoint Workspace 2010 & the Offline Experience (SharePoint 2010)
Donna Shaw and Paul Cannon presented the session on the integration of SharePoint Workspace (formerly known as Groove) with the 2010 offering. Not surprisingly, it was announced that integration with SharePoint was the major investment with this release, and SharePoint Workspace was described as being "the desktop model of the SharePoint server." Donna also stated that, "if you're comfortable working in a SharePoint site, you should be comfortable working in a Workspace."

SharePoint Job Listings**
Inside Sales Representative - United Kingdom
Inside Sales (IS) Representatives are responsible for achieving sales targets for Bamboo Solutions’ family of software products and services that enhance Microsoft SharePoint. IS representatives have territory assignments that include target lists of trial buyers and/or existing customer accounts, with expectations of proactively identifying new sales opportunities, explaining the specific business value, and closing sales. The Inside Sales Person for Europe will spend approximately 50% on answering inbound sales opportunities and should be prepared to spend 50% on outbound sales and account management. The position will also require that the IS Rep Europe become personally knowledgeable on the use of Bamboo products.

SharePoint Solutions Architect - San Jose, CA
Immediate opening for a SharePoint Solutions Architect. Must have consulting (client interfacing) experience. Duties will include interacting with user, business and executive groups to help define the client's needs and translating those needs into a solution of value. The ability to empathize with and understand the business needs of the client is one of the single most important characteristics you bring to the job as well as a great attitude toward teamwork and superb technical ability. As a Solution Architect you will have strong business problem solving, technical, communication, negotiation and change management skills and will be focused on:

Microsoft Updates
The link of an old site is displayed instead of the link of a new site after you restore the old site to the new site in SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft)
Consider the following scenario: You use SharePoint application programming interfaces (APIs) to back up a site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. You create a new site. You restore the old site to the new site. You check the users and the permissions of the new site.

Bamboo Partner Events*
November 10, New York, New York, SharePoint – A Platform for Business Solutions - DataLan
November 12, New York, New York, SharePoint for Intranets, Extranets, and Public Websites - DataLan
November 18, Online, Advanced Topics in SharePoint - Business Process Automation and Workflow Design - DataLan
November 19, Online, Breakthroughs in SharePoint for Financial Services Firms - DataLan
November 19, Sacramento, California, SharePoint - Key Features - Kiefer Consulting Inc.

December 3, New York, New York, SharePoint Winter Expo 2009 - DataLan
December 9, Online, SharePoint for Enterprise Content Management - DataLan
December 10, Iselin, New Jersey, SharePoint for Intranets, Extranets, and Public Websites - DataLan

January 14, Online, Boost Business Results with SharePoint - StreamLogic