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Windows XP: No IE9 for You (Computerworld)
Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed Tuesday. The move makes Microsoft the first major browser developer to drop support for XP, the world's most popular operating system, in a future release.

Save Money and Boost Collaboration by Deploying Web Apps, Office 2010 (TechTarget)
Cloud computing seems to be on everyone's mind lately. But for small to midsized organizations, moving to the cloud isn't easy -- or is it? Organizations tend to deploy Web applications to enhance collaboration efforts within and without their internal network. In the upcoming release of Office 2010, Microsoft is including an added bonus for organizations of all sizes: Office Web Apps. The online versions of applications such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel might be a good way for small and medium-sized businesses to ease into cloud computing. While Web-based productivity suites are not new -- Google Apps and OpenOffice.org are similar offerings -- having the ability to use the familiar Microsoft Office applications online allows you to capitalize on existing end-user skills and vastly reduce your deployment and maintenance costs.

Windows 7 Adoption Survey: IT is Worrying Less, Deploying More (CIO)
A new survey of nearly 1,000 IT professionals conducted by Dimensional Research and sponsored by systems management vendor KACE (now owned by Dell), reveals a boost in enthusiasm for Windows 7 adoption at companies of various size and industry. Of the IT professionals surveyed, 87 percent now plan to deploy Windows 7. Also, in a break with conventional wisdom, almost half of respondents are not waiting for the release of Service Pack 1 to deploy Windows 7 to their corporate desktops and laptops.

Moving to the Cloud: Big Savings, but Plan Ahead (IDG)
Some might say that San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals was pushed into the cloud. The 23-year-old company's data center had been running at 100% capacity and IT executives feared inevitable performance problems, but the company was reluctant to build another site due to the poor economic climate.

Recap: What Happened at MIX 2010 (GeekSmack)
While we haven’t had the largest coverage because of the lack of staffers being able to attend the conference, we have been doing what we can to get some of the most important highlights of MIX here at GeekSmack, but at the time of this writing, MIX is over, and here’s what we saw this year.

Google Lures Exchange Users With Promise Of Easy Migration (ChannelWeb)
Google is taking aim at another Microsoft stronghold by rolling out a server side tool that lets companies move e-mail, calendar and contact data from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. Called Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, the tool can migrate hundreds of users at the same time and allows users to keep using Exchange during the migration process, said Abhishek Bapna, product manager for Google Apps, in a Wednesday blog post.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Managing SharePoint Designer 2010 Video (Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog)
Want to learn more about how to control SPD 2010 usage across your SharePoint sites? Check out this video tutorial for managing SharePoint Designer to get a comprehensive rundown. For more helpful tips and tricks, please also visit the Get the Point blog or their YouTube channel. Enjoy!

SP 2010: Dynamically Displaying Messages to Your Users with the Notification and Status Bar Areas in SharePoint 2010 (Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on development)
With the new version of SharePoint comes a full set of new and awesome features that you'll have to indulge and learn. One of the small things that makes my day much more fun is to display messages to your users in the Status- and Notification areas.

Confusing Names of Commands in SharePoint 2010 (Wictor Wilén)
If you have been developing with SharePoint for the last few years you probably are very aware of the SPWeb and SPSite naming is a bit confusing. SPWeb is actually a site and SPSite is a site collection. It's always fun explaining this to new SharePoint developers... In SharePoint 2010 this naming convention confusion continues and now expands to the administration of SharePoint.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
New Faces of Bamboo: Introducing Sean Mason (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Editor's note:  As readers of our 2009 Year in Review series will have likely gathered, Bamboo is currently undergoing rapid growth.  Some of our new hires have been with us for a couple of months now, but with new faces appearing in the office seemingly daily in recent weeks, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce the new folks to Bamboo Nation.  You should expect to see many of these new faces beginning to appear regularly here in the Team Blog over the course of the year.

 

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SharePoint Architect - Irvine, CA
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SharePoint Developer - New York, NY
Qualified candidates will be responsible for all new development on websites, portals, pages and interactive applications. This role will have a hand in all integrations, application performance, and monitoring of all web based projects. One will be involved in leading projects that will be implementing the latest and greatest SharePoint service packs and version upgrades. This person should be able to develop custom functionality and be familiar with branding a SharePoint Site.

 

Microsoft Updates
Permissions Issue when creating Redirect Page or Custom Page on Publishing Site in MOSS 2007. (Microsoft Support)
Users are assigned “Contribute” rights with the intent that those users should be able to create pages in SharePoint without higher permission levels than that level. When users with the Contribute privilege level try to create a custom page, they receive an “Unknown Error” message.

 

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