Document management was really just simple check-in and out in v2. Now it’s quite impressive: Alerting and RSS feeds on document libraries, as described in this post Custom meta-data Improved capture of meta-data in Office client applications If documents are XML, meta-data can be extracted into lists Creation of custom...
There are lots of small changes that come together to enhance the community support in SharePoint v3. Here is an overview: People become first class citizens, where ever a person appears in SharePoint the information available is improved There is a person field type that can be added to lists...
I always thought WSS v2 had useful alerting, but it was let down because of the lack of good information contained in the alert. Well the new version has superb alerting and subscription, in two forms: Alerts can be delivered by email at certain intervals Any list can be subscribed...
Lists were already VERY powerful in WSS v2. They get even better in V3. Pretty much everything in V3 is a list The capabilities available in lists therefore get inherited everywhere The standard library of list types has been greatly improved, previously for example the standard list type for “issues”...
Here are some of the highlights Bread crumbs everywhere, really help users, in the previous version it was easy to get lost, much more difficult now! Much cleaner UI and much easier to discover new capabilities. Not as rich as Office client, but getting there Very configurable, and data is...
Office System 12 is a huge improvement and represents probably the greatest opportunity for CSC. lets quickly look at the main areas of improvement. Major improvements in usability and consistency Reductions in TCO and DCO allowing CSC to drive down costs and minimum order quantity Major improvements in Extranet access,...
The UI for Office 12 Client has been completely redesigned and the integration between client and server opens up many opportunities. Fundamentally what have Microsoft tried to achieve? 20% or 80% People criticise Office on the basis that people only use 20% of the functionality. I contest that although this...
eWeek has a great mini interview with Stuart Cohen, the CEO of the Open Systems Development Labs. Stuart describes a conversation with Martin Taylor, Microsoft Corp.’s general manager of platform strategy, who recently approached him to consider ways in which the two could conduct a joint research project to do...
If you are anything like me you will have more PC’s than you have desk space for keyboards. In particular I have a main PC and a Tablet that I use all of the time. For many months now I have used ShareKMC to allow me to use one keyboard...
Want to try out Linspire, reportedly one of the easier to use linux distro’s for people familliar with Windows? Then for a couple of days you can download it free following the instructions here: http://info.linspire.com/freespire/index.html be warned the web site seems very slow!