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Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010; Windows 7 Sells 90 Million Copies; Apple’s HTC Suit Aimed at Microsoft

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8 Ways Web Content Management has Improved in SharePoint 2010 (CMS Wire)
Some say that Microsoft hasn't really made many changes to SharePoint 2007's web content management functionality for SharePoint 2010 (news, site). While the underlying architecture may not have changed, there are some improvements that you are bound to like. Here are 8 changes to SharePoint WCM that you need to know about.

Microsoft Confirms Free Office 2010 Upgrade Deal (Computerworld)
Microsoft's chief financial officer confirmed today that the company will offer a free upgrade to the upcoming Office 2010 suite starting this month. In a presentation at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, Microsoft CFO Peter Klein said that the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee program would kick off before the end of March.

Microsoft: Windows 7 Sells 90 Million Copies (Redmond Mag)
Microsoft reported sales of 90 million copies of Windows 7 at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference on Tuesday. The 90-million sales figure, announced by Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein at the San Francisco-based event, represented a significant increase over a previous report. In late January, Microsoft indicated that 60 million Windows 7 licenses had been sold through the end of its fiscal second quarter.

Document Management Roll-up: SharePoint Gets Cloud Archiving, Salesforce And Microsoft CRM Seminars (CMS Wire)
This week in document management brings us plenty of Microsoft news including SharePoint archiving in the cloud and a new secure cloud service to simplify doing business for the Feds.

Internet Explorer 8 Still Not Mingling Well with 2,000 Highly-visited Sites (The Register)
Microsoft confessed yesterday that over 2,000 well-known websites still remained incompatible with Internet Explorer 8. The software vendor said that the number had dropped by about 1,000 sites compared with figures Microsoft spat out a year ago when more than 3,000 web portals needed “Compatibility View” support to show up on an IE 8 user’s screen.

Microsoft CFO Says Product Blitz Heating Up (Datamation)
As the rest of the economy begins to reawaken, Microsoft's prospects for the next couple of years are starting to look a bit like the good old days. That was the prognosis Microsoft's new CFO, Peter Klein, presented to financial analysts on Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference.

Apple’s HTC Suit May Be Aimed at Microsoft, Too (The Big Money)
Apple’s (AAPL) announcement that it was suing smartphone maker HTC for infringing 20 of its patents hit Tuesday like a bombshell quietly dropped from the sky. Much of the early analysis pegs the move as a salvo in a more serious and antagonistic rivalry between Apple and Google (GOOG), which it certainly appears to be. But Apple’s motives may go well beyond that.

Time To Do The Math On Cloud Computing (InformationWeek)
In two weeks, I'll be in Santa Clara at the industry's newest event, Cloud Connect. I'm chairing a track focused on Cloudonomics, a term I coined a couple of years ago to connote the complex economics of using cloud infrastructure, platform, and software services. There are a number of great technical tracks planned, but mine is focused on what I consider to be the most important question: "Why do cloud?"

Google Wave Gets a Smarter API (Mashable)
Google Wave, the real-time communication platform that made a huge splash last year, is looking to bring back some of its original buzz and developer excitement with the launch of v2 of the robots API.

Around the Blogosphere
The Problem With “E” in ECM – Part II – How SharePoint Is Capturing ECM (Big Men on Content)
This is the second installment of “The Problem With ‘E’ in ECM” – Follow this link to read the first post. When you look at the impact SharePoint has made in the content management arena the metrics are truly astounding. So much so that we now talk about SharePoint as a market unto itself. ISV’s and integrators clamor for attention for their extensions and enablers. Every major ECM vendor has been forced to adjust their marketing strategy around it.

Cannot Get the List Schema Column Property from the SharePoint List (SharePoint Boris Gomiunik)
If you’re trying to export data from a SharePoint list to Excel you might get this error message. Possible causes / solutions:

SharePoint Search on Steroids Part 2 — Using JQuery and Web Services (travislowdermilk.com)
This is a continuation of a series about creating a robust search U.I. for SharePoint. Connecting the U.I. to Search Results. We now have our user control embedded on the master page of our site. First we should have the U.I. forwarding the user to the search results upon clicking “Search” or submitting a query. This is simple enough. In reality, we are just redirecting them to the appropriate search results page and placing their query in a query string parameter:

Around Bamboo Nation
Bamboo Introduces Workflow Conductor; Automate & Manage Business Processes with Microsoft SharePoint (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Breakthrough application enables non-developers to automate everyday business processes with Microsoft SharePoint. Bamboo® Solutions, the leading provider of technologies that enhance Microsoft® SharePoint®, announced today the availability of Workflow Conductor™, a new application suite designed to enable business process automation. Workflow Conductor augments Bamboo’s extensive portfolio of add-ons and companion tools for Microsoft SharePoint. With Workflow Conductor, Bamboo is challenging traditional barriers to broader adoption of business process automation, including ease of use, cost of ownership, and integration with existing IT infrastructure.

Requirements Management – 7 Tips for Writing Winning Product Requirements (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Of all the jobs I've held in my career, working as a product manager was one of my favorites. My stint as product manager occurred at AOL where I had ownership of a handful of Web-based consumer finance applications. The primary products I had responsibility for included a stock quote utility and a portfolio management tool. These were software products, and the tips I'll offer on requirements management and authoring requirements will probably be most relevant to those of you who work on software products. This post is intended for any product manager though, whether your product is laundry detergent or golf balls. If part of your job is deciding what features get added to a product, this post is for you.

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SharePoint Development Opportunity - Melbourne, FL
We are looking for a SharePoint professional to assist with an implementation for one of our clients in Central Florida. You must be good with Team Sites and My Sites. Candidates must have experience with site development in relation to Intranet and portals. Experience with templates, workflows, and collaboration is required. Great communication and documentation skills are necessary. Experience with SharePoint (MOSS 2007) is essential.

Microsoft Updates
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update server hotfix package (Dlc-x-none.msp): February 23, 2010 (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 February 23, 2010. This article describes the following items about the hotfix package:

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