Windows Slates at CES. Again; Cloud is Over Hyped; Don’t Knock Windows Phone 7 Yet

SharePoint Daily — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:46:00 GMT

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I'll Tell You Something About Microsoft (BetaNews)
The year 2011 will be make or break. Early year, make or break will be one of perception, whether or not customers and shareholders see the glass as half full or half empty. From the half-full perspective, Microsoft has bet big on the cloud, and at the right time. From the half-empty viewpoint, Microsoft muffed mobile, by first fumbling smartphones and later tablets. The company started pushing the latter category a decade ago, only to lose it to Apple during 2010.

Microsoft to Show Off True iPad Competitors at CES? (ZDNet)
The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may show off some new slates and tablets from various PC partners at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 in January. Sounds like CES 2010 revisited, doesn’t it? Last year, the centerpiece of Ballmer’s keynote was an HP slate prototype (that ultimately emerged as a very different looking HP Slate 500 product aimed at business users).

Commenters Say Don’t Knock Windows Phone 7 Prematurely (Forbes)
Windows Phone 7 has battled a lot of skepticism in its short life. But the mobile operating system, which is a revamp of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software, also has a band of enthusiastic supporters, as I found when I wrote about WP7 last week. My earlier post focused on an iPhone user who had given WP7 a test run of a few weeks. The user, who remains anonymous, ultimately concluded that he preferred the iPhone and returned to it. Afterwards, he sent me a detailed list of ways he thought Microsoft could improve WP7, particularly in regards to its user interface.

Google's Chrome OS: Dead Before Arrival? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Last week Google showed off its progress on Chrome OS, introduced an apps store in support of it, and offered up a prerelease hardware trial program (real machines won't ship until mid-2011). But it's likely all for naught. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt's objective of making Chrome OS a "viable third choice" in operating systems looks doomed.

Gartner Says Cloud is Over Hyped (ITPro)
Cloud computing could be over hyped today, but more than half of large enterprises will rely on public clouds by 2015. According to Gartner, the industry analysts, cloud computing is currently still at the "peak of inflated expectations", with users' belief in the technology outstripping its ability to deliver. But within the next five years, half of the world's 1000 largest enterprises will be using external cloud services for their "top 10 revenue generating processes," Gartner said in its predictions for cloud for 2011, Gartner Predicts 2011: Cloud Computing.

Google, Microsoft Distribute Malware After Domain Name Trickery (Ars Technica)
Ads served by DoubleClick and MSN were distributing drive-by malware last week after attackers were able to trick the networks using a ploy from the phishers' playbook: they masqueraded as a legitimate advertising provider by using a domain name that looked the same as the provider's. AdShuffle.com is a legitimate company selling ads to various ad networks, including DoubleClick and MSN. AdShufffle.com—three fs—is not, but it looks close enough to AdShuffle.com that the networks were tricked. These banner ads attempted to use a range of exploits (two Internet Explorer, one Java, and four Adobe Reader flaws—all which are currently patched), to install the HDD Plus malware. HDD Plus is bogus disk diagnostic software; it warns of impending failures, and says that to avoid trouble you should buy the full version.

Around the Blogosphere
Santa's SharePoint Governance Strategy (NothingButSharePoint)
It all started one morning when I came across Corasworks' press release about how Santa is improving his business operations with SharePoint and Corasworks products. Owen Allen, former Microsoft SharePoint ISV Partner Manager, sent a tweet about it which I responded and asked: "What does Santa's SharePoint governance + adoption plan look like?"

Using SPServices & jQuery to Find My Stuff from Multi-Select Person/Group Field (The SharePoint Hillbilly)
Okay… quick blog post for all you SPServices fans out there. I needed to quickly write a script that would return all the tasks currently assigned to me. I also wanted it to return any task that was assigned to a group I belong to. This can actually be done with a CAML query, so no big deal, right? The rub is that the “assigned to” field is a multi-select person or group field. As far as I know (and I actually know so little) you cannot just write a CAML query to return this information. If you can, please leave a comment below and disregard the rest of this blog post…

SharePoint Content Types: Why Should I Care? (SharePoint Magazine)
I recently heard from a colleague who was frustrated that his users and site collection owners didn’t want to use content types. As such, I decided to write an article that he could reference when he wanted to give his users the main reasons, using non-technical language, why content types make sense. You are likely reading this for one of two reasons. One is that you know why SharePoint content types are the coolest things since, well, temperature, and you need to convince someone that you are not completely bonkers.

Announcing SPDisposeCheck v14.0.4762.1000 Update for SharePoint Development (Roger Lamb's SharePoint Developer Blog)
I’m happy to announce SPDisposeCheck v14.0.4762.1000 was updated and released today 12/13/2010. SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose best practices. This tool may not show all memory leaks in your code and may produce false positives which need further review by subject matter experts.

Around Bamboo Nation
SharePoint 2010 Cookbook: Programmer's Guide to the Filter Web Part (SharePoint 2010)
If you take a look at our SharePoint List Filters Collection, you will see that several of the most useful filters are made available on WSS, allowing users access to the same easy, flexible filtering systems available in MOSS via list filters for Choice, Current User, Date, Query String, and Text. With list filters such as these, you can easily provide end users with a simple system to temporarily and non-destructively adjust the way Web Parts consume data.

SharePoint Job Listings*
Senior SharePoint Developer - Bethesda, MD
This position is with the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), Scientific Applications and Information Software Engineering Branch (SEB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The selected individual will construct software modules for new and existing software systems. The candidate must be capable of working with a diverse group of stakeholders performing high level and detailed analysis, defining and writing programs using SharePoint 2010, 2007 and .NET Framework technologies. Additionally, the candidate will perform system integration and deployment activities, prepare system support documentation, and document program and system functions.

Enterprise SharePoint Administrator - Atlanta, GA
The position is working as a Dell Perot Systems employee at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The right candidate will have excellent technical and people skills. We are looking for a team player to serve as an Enterprise SharePoint, administrator with a blend of technical and functional skills with respect to MOSS 2007/2010 and WSS 3.0. The mission is to establish and support development, test, and production environments using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Workflow Designer application development tools. The right candidate must be able to work with customers, developers, and team members at various levels to ensure the development, test, and deployment of high performance information systems for a large enterprise.

Microsoft Updates
SharePoint 2007: A user's presence information does not appear correctly in People search results intermittently (Microsoft Support)
Consider the following scenario you have user accounts in Active Directory with different SMTP and SIP addresses (msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress). You import these users into your MOSS 2007 SSP using a profile import connection. You perform a full crawl to have these users show up in search results.

SharePoint Events*

December 15, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
December 15, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
December 15, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Administration Webinar
December 15, Online, Bamboo Workflow Conductor - Automating Business Processes Webinar
December 15, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
December 15, Washington, DC, Women In SharePoint DC User Group: Dee Anne Gavlick on SharePoint at IPM - It's Not All About Technology
December 17, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - Shai Petel: Advanced Development on the 2010 Ribbon
December 29, Online, Bamboo Workflow Conductor - Automating Business Processes Webinar
December 29, Online, Bamboo SharePoint Project Management Central Webinar
December 29, Online, Bamboo PM Suite Webinar - Building Blocks for Implementing Your Own Project Management Solution

January 3, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - Larry Concannon: Assuring Accessibility and Privacy Compliance in SharePoint...
January 8, Virginia Beach, Virginia, SharePoint Saturday
January 10, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - Jeff Willinger: Get more Social with SharePoint
January 14, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - David J. Pileggi, Jr.: SharePoint Security: Through the Looking Glass V2
January 17, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - Christian Buckley: 11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint Migration
January 21, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - Talbott Crowell: Automating SharePoint with PowerShell
January 24, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - Andrew Babiec: Connecting SharePoint to the rest of the Enterprise using BizTalk
January 28, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - Russ Edelman: Traversing The Term Store
January 29, Hartford, Connecticut, SharePoint Saturday
January 31, Online, SharePoint Saturday Boston #3 Webinar Series - Miller & Weeks: SURVEY RESULTS: How is your company using SharePoint?
January 31-February 2, Toronto, Canada, SharePoint Summit

February 7-9, San Francisco, California, SPTechCon
February 26, New Orleans, Louisiana, SharePoint Saturday
February 26, San Diego, California, SharePoint Saturday

March 7-9, La Jolla, California, SharePoint Best Practices Conference

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December 13-17, Online, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Developer - Mindsharp

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Windows Slates at CES. Again; Cloud is Over Hyped; Don’t Knock Windows Phone 7 Yet