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Today's world of business is constantly evolving. People increasingly rely on tools that provide greater connectivity to corporate resources, the Internet, and each other. Familiar and easy-to-use, Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easily connect and integrate with your current business technologies. These new products are designed to evolve as your business needs change. Simply put, using these products together helps promote a people-ready business environment that empowers your people to drive business success.
Learn how other companies have achieved success through collectively implementing these new releases. Our customer success stories illustrate how using these products can simplify how people work together; help to protect and manage content; help people to find information and improve business insight; and reduce security threats and deployment costs.
The SharePoint Solution Generator is a stand-alone application that can convert Wss3 web (SPWeb) into a Visual Studio 2005 site definition project that can be compiled into a SharePoint solution for deployment into your SharePoint farm.
Microsoft is licensing the new Office 2007 user interface for free so developers can build applications that look similar to the programs in the suite.
Information about the licensing program can be found here.
The Learning Gateway Community exists for educators, partners and developers. It is a space to share ideas, ask questions, and find new components. Most importantly, this is where you provide the vision for the Learning Gateway moving forward!
AIIM is the international authority on Enterprise Content Management. For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire ECM industry - including users, suppliers, and the channel - acts as the industry's intermediary.
For each 60 GB PS3 model sold in the US for a retail price of $599, Sony loses an estimated $241.35; and for each 20 GB model sold for $499, the manufacturer loses $306.85
With component costs having depreciated over one year's time, and the cost of factory retooling and improvements no longer a major factor, Microsoft spends only $323.30 per unit. After margins are accounted for, Microsoft likely earns a modest profit per unit sold today.
Microsoft Office Live has now gone live in the United States at http://www.officelive.com after being in beta for nine months. Free beta availability will be available in Japan, France, the U.K. and Germany from 21 Nov.
Customers can sign up for Office Live, a complete, affordable set of Internet-based software and services that help small businesses attract new customers, keep in touch with existing customers, generate repeat business, and easily manage their business while on the go.
Share information, collaborate on documents, and collect team knowledge over the Internet or your corporate network with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in Windows Server 2003
Angus and Sahil have written a utility to take the Shared Services Provider Search settings and import them into another ... it will cut down on human error and make it easier to deploy.
The product is intended to extend the web content authoring environment of Office SharePoint Server 2007 by providing cross-browser compatibility and support for the Macintosh platform. The r.a.d.editor offers the same functional level as the integrated rich text editor and will be provided by Telerik at no cost to all registered customers of Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Telerik r.a.d.editor can be used in the following scenarios:
rich-text filed control in SharePoint forms (in Lists, etc.)
rich-text editor WebPart
Web Content Management scenario
A beta version will for Office SharePoint Server Beta 2 Technical Refresh will be available in the beginning December. Telerik will launch the final version shortly after Office SharePoint Server is officially released.Read the Press Release.
We have collected a lot of feedback from Partners over the past few months to understand how they want to receive information from Microsoft. In addition to the Partner web site we have now extended PTS-TV to a wider audience with Partner-TV - now with downloadable audio to listen on your favourite music player!
Please visit the Partner-TV video blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ptstv/ to see various people from around the business on what they do and what it means for our Partners.
Liam Cleary has a fantastic in-depth series running on rebuilding a corporate website with the new WCM features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We're talking deep practical dives into CSS, master pages, navigation, and content types. Highly recommended!
The SysInternals tools -- including Process Explorer, Regmon, Filemon, and many more -- are now available here on microsoft.com.
A couple of major highlights include Process Monitor, a new tool that supersedes Regmon and Filemon, and the SysInternals Suite, which combines the whole set of SysInternals tools into a single download package.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies allows you to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 report processing and management capabilities within Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Two of the great new things about MOSS2007 are Content Types and the extensibility of the Search function. Put the two together and very quickly you’ll come up with the scenario where you’ve created a nice comprehensive set of metadata which you’ve now applied to all the sites and libraries in your site collection, and now you want search on those metadata items.
The Advanced Search web part (typically surfaced through the Search Centre) looks like it’s going to do the job for you, with a drop down box which lets you restrict your search based on properties, but out-of-the-box it quickly becomes apparent that only a subset of the standard properties are there, not your own site columns.
Microsoft have released information on Photosynth ... this takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space.
Watch the videos to learn how this new technology will change the way you think of photographs forever.
"What if your photo collection was an entry point into the world, like a wormhole that you could jump through and explore... " Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Live Labs.
During Royale's development (the XP Media Center theme), the graphic artists also produced a black version of the skin, sans the overused 'glass' effect. The result is an aesthetic black skin named "Royale Noir"
With Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2002(XP), Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Windows Live Mail or Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts.
Why would a charity spend money on software if it could get it for free? Gareth Mitchell asks Steven Buckley the Director of the Common Knowledge programme at Christian Aid exactly that question.
Steven also discusses how they use Sharepoint technologies to enable Christian Aid workers to collaborate across the world. Also mentions how IORA compression technologies enables SharePoint to be used in remote areas where telecommunications are poor.
Digital Planet is the weekly BBC World Service programme that reports on technology stories from around the globe.
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 has been released to manufacturing ... this provides advances for building rich, interactive client applications (Windows Presentation Foundation), communication and workflow (Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation) and online identity management (Windows CardSpace).
You can download the .NET Framework 3.0 components here:
Note, if you are using Windows Vista the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components are installed by default. The Readme for the released version of the .NET Framework 3.0 is available here.
The availability of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Office System has been announced today at the keynote at Tech Ed in Barcelona. VSTO 2005 Second Edition extends on the functionality of prior releases by offering support for key 2007 Microsoft Office systems. Click here to see a brief video demo of the functionality, including:
Programming model and runtime support for the ribbon, custom task panes, and Outlook form regions and design-time support for InfoPath 2007 form templates.
Application-level add-ins for Outlook 2007, Excel 2007, Word 2007, PowerPoint 2007, InfoPath 2007 and Visio 2007.
Support for Visual Studio 2005 Professional.
The VSTO 2005 SE runtime also assures that the applications you’ve built on Office 2003 with VSTO 2005 continue to run with the 2007 Office system. This means that any development that you do against Office 2003 will continue to work as you upgrade to the 2007 Office system.
Dates were leaked last week - but here is the official announcement that 2007 Microsoft Office System has RTMed (Released to Manufacturing) and will be available for businesses by end of November.
Microsoft Office RTM also marks a critical step toward worldwide business availability of the 2007 Office system, Windows Vista operating system and Exchange Server 2007 on 30 Nov 2006.
The Windows Vista journey is about to reach the end of the beginning, with the official launch date of November 30 announced for the simultaneous launch of Office 2007 and the business version of Windows Vista.
Today's world of business is constantly evolving. People increasingly rely on tools that provide greater connectivity to corporate resources, the Internet, and each other. Familiar and easy-to-use, Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 easily connect and integrate with your current business technologies. These new products are designed to evolve as your business needs change. Simply put, using these products together helps promote a people-ready business environment that empowers your people to drive business success.
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Microsoft Office Live has now gone live in the United States at 
Connect people, processes and information.
Share information, collaborate on documents, and collect team knowledge over the Internet or your corporate network with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in Windows Server 2003
Telerik have announced the availability of the 
We have collected a lot of feedback from Partners over the past few months to understand how they want to receive information from Microsoft. In addition to the Partner web site we have now extended PTS-TV to a wider audience with Partner-TV - now with downloadable audio to listen on your favourite music player!
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Microsoft have released information on Photosynth ... this takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space.
The re-designed Office Online site is now live and there is now a landing page dedicated to Windows SharePoint Services. 
Microsoft is changing the packaging for Office 2007 and its Vista operating system.