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I’ve often joked with my colleagues and the SharePoint MVPs that my most productive working hours are 9 PM to 5 AM rather than during the normal 9 AM to 5 PM work day when I’m jumping back and forth between meetings, phone calls, e-mail threads, dropping
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And Bill Gates gave it along with the Golden Discs for Windows Vista Beta 2 and Windows Server “Longhorn” Beta 2 to Alan Nunns of Chevron on stage during his keynote session at WinHEC last Tuesday while I was watching the live Webcast at home. It was
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Speaking of Executive Briefing presentations, I just volunteered to do one for our Unified Communications Group (UCG – the folks who developed Live Communications Server and Office Communicator ) that’s coming up next Monday. I found out right after I
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Microsoft’s Executive Briefing Program has just been awarded “Briefing Program of the Year“ from the Association of Briefing Program Managers ( ABPM ), an international organization with over 100 Fortune 500 member companies, including IBM, Sun, Cisco,
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I’d like to expand on what I wrote in my previous entry re: the GotDotNet CodeGallery , which is a free website run by Microsoft that enables commercial and shared source Developers and IT Pros to create micro-communities within which to engage in the
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Wow, it’s been almost 2 months since my last blog entry. I’ve just been busier than ever at work and at home -- my family and I finally moved into our permanent home a few weeks ago. Anyway, at work, I had the opportunity to present my SharePoint Community
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The SharePoint Team Blog just keeps getting better as the number and technical depth of posts increases. Jon Kauffman’s recent couple of posts is an excellent example of why so many Microsoft blogs have become so popular – they provide an insider’s look
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A couple of other bloggers have already discovered it, but we launched the SharePoint Team Blog in stealth mode this past Monday. The first entry was posted by Kurt Delbene , Corporate VP of the Office Servers product group, and a second entry was just
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I just sent out an internal e-mail announcement to several hundred technical sales people re: the completion of my first major deliverable -- the Microsoft Office “12” SharePoint Servers and Windows SharePoint Services “v3” Technology Briefing slidedeck,
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Well, the Office “12” Beta 1 Technology Preview Program has officially started , and 10,000 lucky customers and partners are in the process of downloading the bits from our BetaPlace site. Already, the early press coverage has been very positive: PC Magazine:
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When I recently saw Eli Robillard’s blog entry on “ Speculating on SPS vNext ,” I was compelled to leave the following comment: Please do not assume that everything presented at PDC05 will be "pushed down" to WSS "v3." The fact is that packaging discussions
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First, I finally got my own office this past Monday! Next, I spent two days interviewing the SharePoint v.Next Lead Program Managers for input and feedback for the Evaluation Guide(s) that I’m developing. I can now claim that I know more about the next
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To me, Jakob is the leading guru of software usability, and I’ve been following his writings for many, many years now. So, it warms my heart that he’s quite positive about the new UI in Office “12.” Here are some choice excerpts from his recent post:
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I’ve been mildly amused by all the recent rantings about “Web 2.0” in the blogosphere. Many people, whose opinions I respect, don’t like the term (and Richard MacManus has a good summary) while a few, like Alex Barnett , still do. My own take on what’s
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Yesterday’s all-hands meeting of the IWPMG (that’s Information Worker Product Management Group) was my first, and I was particularly impressed by Chris Capossela , who heads our organization. Chris reviewed our FY06 business objectives and Q1 scorecard
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