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Windows 7 and Office 2010 Driving Tech Refresh; Where Is Cloud Computing Headed?; Apple Co-founder Left for $800

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SharePoint Is the New Access (Redmond Developer News)
Microsoft offers no shortage of options for developing so-called "forms over data" applications. Whether using data-binding technologies in the Microsoft .NET Framework, the Data Sources Window and its drag-and-drop capabilities in Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight, or ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Microsoft has got you covered. Really, the scenario of building data-focused screens and applications has been one that Microsoft has assisted us with since the dawn of Access version 1.0.

Windows 7 and Office 2010 Driving Tech Refresh, says Dell (PCR)
Major software releases are driving a hardware refresh cycle in the enterprise channel, vendor claims. At Dell's annual meeting with financial analysts yesterday, CEO Michael Dell said there was signs of business migrating to new hardware.

Microsoft Builds a Windows Phone 7 Developer Platform, But Will the Coders Come? (ZDNet)
In the PC world, vendors used to say that the hardware and operating system were far less important than the number and variety of applications available for a given platform. (With Web apps’ popularity growing, that adage probably is less true than it used to be.) In the mobile phone world, however, applications still matter. A lot.

Microsoft Debuts Windows Live Essentials Beta (eWeek)
Microsoft rolled out the new beta for its Windows Live Essentials, which features multimedia and productivity applications such as Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Sync, Writer, Mail and Family Safety. Business users may gravitate towards Windows Live Mail, which supports multiple email accounts and brings calendar and RSS feeds onto the platform, and Sync, which allows files to be synchronized across multiple PCs. Despite its traditional base in desktop software, Microsoft has been increasingly focused on cloud-based applications as a vital component of future strategy.

Structure 2010: Where Is Cloud Computing Headed? (GigaOM)
The final panel of GigaOM’s Structure 2010 brought together five people who run a diverse groups of clouds — from Yahoo’s self-contained infrastructure that runs all its sites to The Planet, which offers cloud services for small businesses. Are standards on the way for the cloud? Our panelists agreed that in some cases standards could be helpful. For instance, it would be great to compare performance data, security policies and compliance records. And many customers would benefit from being able to combine services that easily work together.

The Gambling Man Who Co-founded Apple and Left for $800 (CNN)
Ron Wayne is usually just another gambler at the Nugget Hotel & Casino in Nevada. He comes here a couple of days a week to try his luck on the video poker machine. But on this trip, he drew some curious onlookers, as he was escorted by a CNN camera crew. A gift-shop worker asked him if he's famous. "Well, I'm one of the founders of Apple Computer," Wayne responded.

Around the Blogosphere
SharePoint 2010 End User Training and Help (Arpan Shah's Blog)
I met up with Martin Harwar, SharePoint MVP & Solution Architect at Point8020, and he demoed ShowMe for SharePoint 2010 that delivers premium SharePoint 2010 End User training and video help. It provides consumable help & training when end users need it on many SharePoint topics that helps accelerate adoption. I’m really impressed with how ShowMe for SharePoint 2010 provides an integrated, intuitive & in-context learning experience to end users. If you’re a SharePoint 2010 customer or partner who is looking to train end users on SharePoint 2010, I definitely recommend checking it out! After talking to Martin, I had a chance to install it and check it out for myself. Here's my take:

Best Practice: Should SharePoint Replace Your File Servers? (AskSharePoint.com)
One of SharePoint’s popular features is Document Management, which leads many organizations to migrate their data from files shares or their Document Management System over to SharePoint. Is this best practice? Let’s not be hasty, and look at the various things to consider on both sides of the coin.

Why Office? “To Keep Projects on Rrack.” (Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering)
Project execution is important no matter who you work for or what department you are in. You have to know who is accountable for what, where information can be found, and keep everyone up to date when things change.

SharePoint 2010 Hangs after Visual Studio 2010 F5 Debugging (Darrin Bishop)
Lately I have been having some issues with debugging a fairly simple Visual Studio 2010/SharePoint 2010 project. Whenever I deploy the project to the farm, Internet Explorer launches, tries to connect to the SharePoint site and more often than not the web server times out before the debugger is attached and the site is up and running. Occasionally it loads after a long wait period but will normally time out before I get a chance to do any real debugging.

Around Bamboo Nation
Feature Comparison Chart: Bamboo Task Master Web Part vs. List Type Tasks in SharePoint 2010 (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Out-of-the-box, SharePoint 2010 provides more task management features than ever before but, as you can see in the feature comparison chart below, Bamboo Task Master's rich, drag and drop interface provides a wider range of features surrounding the ability to display Successors/Predecessors and the relationship between them in a familiar Gantt interface, and much more. Need to change the date of a Predecessor? No problem, the Successor is automatically updated, saving countless hours and inconsistency across your tasks, and providing a true Predecessor and Successor relationship in SharePoint!

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K2 Blackpearl/Microsoft SharePoint Developer - Bremerton, WA
Concurrent Technologies Corporation is seeking an outstanding candidate who will work as part of multi-discipline teams of various levels, roles, duties, and responsibilities, which include U.S. Navy customers, to gather Microsoft SharePoint and K2 Blackpearl related project requirements and build solutions to meet their needs. The successful candidate will have a desire to work with the business group throughout the development and implementation process, helping them understand product functionality and capabilities. Additionally, the successful candidate should have excellent communication skills, be able to meet deadlines, have a positive attitude, and work well independently and as part of a team.

Microsoft Updates
MOSS 2007 - Refreshing External Data, using SSO, from an Oracle Database. (Microsoft Support)
When refreshing an Excel Workbook, in Excel Services, using SSO, from an Oracle Database an user receives the error: "Data Refresh Unable to retrieve external data for the following connections: <Connection> The data sources may be unreachable, may not be responding, or may have denied you access. Verify that data refresh is enabled for the trusted file location and that the workbook data authentication is correctly set."

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