Metalogix FileShare Migration Manager

Home > News from Around the Web

Ending the SharePoint is Crack Debate; Best of Public and Private Clouds; Windows 8 App-Store: Too Little, Too Late?

Published 12/08 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community

Bill Gates is building nuclear reactors. Wait, what?  -  Dooley

Top News Stories
4 Final Points to the SharePoint is Crack Debate (CMSWire)
Last month I dove into the problems that SharePoint brings to the workplace. Matt Ranlett, a colleague, didn't completely agree with me and addressed some of those points. But before we nip this "he said, he said" in the bud once and for all, let me offer a couple of clarifications. A Few Clarifications: Let's take a closer look at some of Matt Ranlett's responses to my article and provide some additional clarifications:

This 32-Year-Old Entrepreneur Is Bent On Beating One Of Microsoft's Largest Businesses (San Francisco Chronicle)
The term "Enterprise 2.0" is thrown around a lot these days. It refers to a class of companies that are taking ideas from companies like Twitter and Facebook and applying them to workplace software. It's led to the rise of a whole new batch of startups with red-hot valuations. Jive, an enterprise social network, filed to go public earlier this year and is valued at $573 million, while Box.net turned down a $500 million buyout offer earlier this year.

Windows 8: One OS to Rule Them All? (PCWorld)
Windows 8 is on the horizon. Microsoft has designed the next-generation flagship operating system with a split personality that straddles the line between the familiar Windows 7 desktop, and the flashy Metro interface used with Windows Phone 7. Can Microsoft successfully tackle desktop and mobile with one OS? Microsoft is not new to mobile devices. It had a smartphone before the Apple iPhone revolution came along, and it was pushing tablet PCs before the Apple iPad made it cool. But, as long as Microsoft’s history with mobile devices is, so is its stubborn desire to make everything about its Windows OS.

Windows 8 App-Store: Me-Too Not Enough, Touch Can Bring It Down (ConceivablyTech)
At first sight, Microsoft has a compelling idea to follow Apple’s and Google’s leadership to establish an App Store for its platform. However, what Microsoft has unveiled so far is underwhelming and builds on questionable success factors and could easily turn into a huge train wreck for Microsoft. A few days ago, market researchers from IDC voiced some concern whether Windows 8 can be as successful as Microsoft hopes it will be. Without a touch display, there is no reason for desktop users to upgrade and the tablet version of the OS will be late to the party. We felt that IDC was a bit too pessimistic about its prediction, even if we believe that Microsoft is going down the wrong route by virtually forcing the touch UI onto the PC platform: Touch has not worked on vertical screens in the past and it won’t in the future. But the latest feature unveilings for Windows 8 certainly raise more concerns.

Why Microsoft Office is Our PC's Kudzu (ReadWriteEnterprise)
Is it time to retire Microsoft Office, as my colleague Eric Lundquist says in his latest Information Week column? Much as I would like to, I can't. Part of the problem is addiction, part comfort, and part because it just works well enough that there isn't any reason to get rid of it. Office is the kudzu of the computer world: you can't easily get rid of it, it has grown like topsy to take over other apps, and it holds you in its grip something fierce. Why addiction? Let's face it, we have enough keystroke and command syntax memory that switching to something else isn't useful. And yes, there are all these fancy tools that didn't exist a decade ago, or even last month. Okay, I'll admit it: my name is David and I have been a Microsoft user for 20 years. I would guess Eric is too. But retire Office? No chance.

Hybrid Cloud: The Best of Public and Private Clouds (SearchCloudComputing)
While the term “private cloud” means custom cloud technology for enterprises, most believe their own data centers already provide private clouds services. Since these companies also expect to adopt at least some public cloud services, the next step clearly is to build a hybrid cloud. But if hybridization isn’t a partnership between a public cloud and a private cloud that are built on common technologies, how does it happen? Companies expect worker application experiences to be transparent to where the application runs, which means either the experiences or the applications must be integrated in a hybrid cloud regardless of how the “private” portion is created.

CEOs Love iPads, and Other Things You Need to Know About the Cloud (CloueBeat)
Last week, VentureBeat hosted its first ever CloudBeat conference. It was a huge success (if we do say so ourselves), with more than 400 executives from cloud startups, leading cloud service providers, and various Fortune 500 companies coming together to talk shop. You can check out complete coverage of panels, talks and sessions here. A few big themes came up over the two day conference. Let’s take a look at the highlights.

 

Around the Blogosphere
Is Taxonomy Social (AIIM)
I did an online presentation a couple months back for a user group, sharing some strategies for developing a strong metadata taxonomy. One of the participants reached out recently with an interesting question: How does taxonomy improve social collaboration?

SharePoint & Office 365: Simple Permissions Governance (SPTechWeb)
In SharePoint and SharePoint Online with Office 365, permissions have always been one of the major pain points when it comes to end users, training and adoption. The user interface on the permissions screens, and the complexity revolving around inheriting or breaking permissions, are in many cases quite challenging to grasp. I deal a lot with small companies, and many of them use SharePoint sites for just the bread and butter: team collaboration. Here’s a very simple and common setup:

Accessing SharePoint Document Libraries Mapped as a Network Drive (SharePointEduTech)
Just a quick post but useful to some hopefully, we had an email from a customer saying that they could map a network drive directly from a windows 7 computer to a SharePoint document library but could not from an XP machine? So a bit of background first some people would like to use the “my sites” in SharePoint as a replacement for home directories on a network. This would encourage usage of SharePoint for end users and make it easy for them to access their files off site if they have exposed their SharePoint to the internet. And good news with the release of Windows 7 was this was achievable but also with Windows XP as long as Service pack 3 was installed.

 

Around Bamboo Nation
Why Is SharePoint So Slow? (The Bamboo Team Blog)
Here at Bamboo, we spend a LOT of time in SharePoint -- probably more than is healthy. But that doesn't mean we don't also spend time on the rest of the Internet, updating our fantasy team lineups, reading WordPress sites, and playing with the latest and greatest applications out there on the Web. And if there's one thing that hasn't changed in my four years of using, testing, extending, and working with SharePoint on a daily basis (along with the rest of the Web), it's this : SharePoint is shockingly slow.  And I want to know why.

 

SharePoint Job Listings*
SharePoint Developer (Multiple Openings) - Sterling, VA & Ft. Rucker, AL
The SharePoint Architect / Lead Developer will be responsible for: Aligning all SharePoint custom applications. The architect makes the typical decisions that determine when custom development is required or a solution can be achieved with built in SharePoint functionality. The Architect is also works closely with the governance team to establish the development guidelines that govern the type of development allowed in SharePoint throughout the enterprise.

SharePoint Developer - Fenton, MO
Apollo Professional Solutions is currently seeking a SharePoint Developer with in depth knowledge of SharePoint 2010 and the Core Functional Areas (Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights, Composites). Installation and experience with a multiple farm environments (Internal and External facing SharePoint Applications). Administration of SharePoint infrastructure - webapps, sites, site collections. Experienced with managed deployment process for content and features through development lifecycle (dev, staging, prod).

 

Microsoft Updates
Access Multiple SharePoint 2010 Lists by Using LINQ (MSDN)
In this exercise, you develop and deploy a visual Web Part that reads data from three lists by using LINQ queries and displays the results in a grid view control. The Web Part also contains a drop-down control that enables you to select which query is executed. To complete this task, you must do the following: Create a Visual Web Part Project; Generate LINQ to SharePoint Proxy Code; Add Code to Create the SharePoint Controls; Add the LINQ Queries to the Project; Test the Solution.

 

SharePoint Events*

 

SharePoint Training*

* Please contact Chris Dooley (chris.dooley@bamboosolutions.com) to be included in SharePoint Daily™.

 

Have SharePoint Daily™ delivered to your email inbox every morning.

Read more

Recent SharePoint Questions

more sharepoint questions

More Articles By

Develop Mobile Applications for SharePoint with Mobile Entree - CMSWire


Develop Mobile Applications for SharePoint with Mobile Entree
CMSWire, CA
By Barb Mosher | Jun 5, 2009 Seeing as how SharePoint (news, site) is so widely used within the enterprise today, it's…

Read more

Bamboos Year in Review: Marc OBrien Introduces the Bamboo Online Applications Division

Editor's note:  Last year we introduced the Bamboo Year in Review feature, kicking off with a note

Read more

Working with the Admin Links on your SharePoint Blog

While writing the final sentences of my post on how to create a SharePoint blog last week, I realized that I needed to circle back and spend some time…

Read more

More Articles Under "News from Around the Web"

Guest Blog by H3 Solutions Jason Hall - Mobile Entrée, Taking a Look Under the Hood

Mobile Entrée is installed as a SharePoint solution and is deployed as a series of features. 

Read more

SharePoint on Your SmartPhone, Android Moves to Laptops, Best Practices Conference Speakers List

Top News Stories
Google Wave - A Developer's Eye View (The Register)
Last week, Google announced Wave, a…

Read more

Announcing the Best Practices Conference Speakers List!

Make your plans now to attend the Best Practices Conference this August 24-26 in Washington, D.C. to ensure that you don't miss out on sessions presented by some…

Read more

Metalogix Website Migration Manager