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Office 2010 Starting at $99; Microsoft's New Lenovo Tablet; Azure Almost Ready

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Is $99 Too Much for Office 2010? (ZDNet)
Have you used the beta of Office 2010? I have. It’s incredibly slick, well-done software. I really like Office 2007, but 2010, even in beta form (much as Windows 7 beta was to Vista) is a real leap ahead. The interface is polished and it has everything a power user could want, from Access to Word. Microsoft announced pricing for it today and, while volume licensing hasn’t been hammered out, the academic version of Office 2010 Professional looks to be running $99 a pop. Upgrade pricing won’t be available for current Office 2007 users.

Microsoft Touts New Lenovo Tablet (CNET)
Microsoft, which has an obvious stake in the future of tablet PCs, is standing firmly behind a new tablet designed by IBM and supplied by China's Lenovo Group. The new X41 Tablet Series (X41T) is the first offering by Lenovo following its purchase of IBM's legendary PC business earlier this year. The device will be available June 14 directly through Lenovo and IBM, as well as through resellers.

Google's 10 Toughest Rivals (Network World)
The biggest tech industry news story of the decade was undoubtedly the dramatic rise of Google. But will the search and online advertising juggernaut continue its dominance over the Internet economy in 2010? Not if the tech companies on our list can help it. Until now, Google's biggest frenemies were the traditional media: newspapers, magazines and TV stations that create online content Google searches and that buy online advertising from Google. But as its portfolio has grown to encompass more than 150 products -- including free, hosted versions of popular software applications -- Google has attracted an array of tech industry competitors.

Microsoft's 'Almost Ready' Azure Set for April Delivery? (The Register)
Microsoft plans to start fully charging customers for use of its planned Azure cloud until the spring, it seems. The Windows Azure platform team has said it will be April when Microsoft starts charging for the components that comprise Azure’s AppFabric - the Service Bus that connects applications and services, and the Access Control system for federated log in by users.

Microsoft as Enabler (CTO Edge)
There seems to be some interest in the online world stemming from an article that appeared on InformationWeek.com regarding the seven things Microsoft must do in 2010. As someone who lives and breathes Microsoft just about every day, I found this article extremely interesting, albeit a little uninspiring. Sure, some of the points it makes are extremely valid. Microsoft does have some uncertainty in the executive offices that needs to be cleared up, and it is way too concerned with floundering consumer electronics devices like the Zune. However, telling Microsoft to slash prices and extend its service offerings is not the solution.

Around the Blogosphere
What the Office Team will be Talking About at CES (Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering)
Heading into the new year, the Microsoft Office team is motivated more than ever by what we’re hearing about customers’ experiences with Office 2010. Many people think Office is just for the workplace, but millions of people are using Office at home, at school and for their small businesses to get things done. For instance:

Todd Baginski’s How-to Series (Microsoft Business Connectivity Services Team Blog)
Todd Baginski has a great series of how-to posts that demonstrate multiple capabilities of Business Connectivity Services. These are the posts on Todd’s blog so far:

Build a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center (End User SharePoint)
This article is part of a series as I document my processes of discovery for creating jQuery solutions in SharePoint. To view the entire series, click the link at the bottom of this article to view all of the articles in the series. — Mark. I laid the groundwork for my jQuery investigations in a previous article. Now that I’ve done a little research, I’ve started building out a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center. The SSRC is at the top of the site collection, and set to “Read Only” access for all users of the site collection. I used a SharePoint wiki site to build the interface for the center.

SP 2010: How To - Relational Lists in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development)
One of the new cool things in SharePoint 2010 is the fact that we now have relational lists. In my previous article about List Joins, I talked about how you programmatically can fetch and join information from more than one list with the improved SPQuery object. In this article I will give you an overview of what capabilities you get out of the box when installing SharePoint 2010 - in terms of relational data in lists.

Around Bamboo Nation
Bamboo Happy Birthday Reminder Web Part Now Available in Bamboo Labs (The Bamboo Team Blog)
The latest offering from Bamboo Labs, our incubator for new products and technology, Bamboo Happy Birthday Reminder Web Part reads user profile information such as email address, name, and birthday from SharePoint's Active Directory. When you access a page containing this Web Part, a list of animated images is displayed for the user(s) whose birthday falls in the specified range (displayed by day or week, as configured). An email is also sent to the birthday boy or girl, wishing them a happy birthday, so you'll never have to worry about sending a belated "happy birthday" card again.

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CMS Migration Consultant, SharePoint Exp Needed - Rockville, Maryland
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Microsoft Updates
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server hotfix package (Coreserver-x-none.msp): December 15, 2009 (Microsoft Support)
This article describes the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package that is dated December 15, 2009. This article describes the following items about the hotfix package:

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