Technology Mashup

If you are following developments in the forthcoming Oslo project from Microsoft, then you will want to check out these two videos from endpoint.tv. Oslo will be released later this year affecting products such as .NET Framework, Visual Studio, BizTalk Server and others. It will provide some neat enhancements to WF / WCF and will give Microsoft a stronger offering in the SOA space.

The first video is a high level introduction and discussion with David Chappell. The second video deals with preparation for Oslo and discussion with Jon Flanders.

Cross posted from the Sharepoint Team Blog...

Upcoming conferences with plenty of SharePoint oriented content -

Cross-posted from the Sharepoint Team Blog - some great tips here:

A much easier way to keep track of new SharePoint content published on MSDN and TechNet -

The following RSS feeds have been available for a few months now, but we still get questions on a weekly basis from people wondering how they can keep track of SharePoint oriented content that is published on TechNet and MSDN.

An interesting question from Cliff Saran:

Open letter to Bill Gates: what would you say? - I guess it is fair to say you have made computers easier to use - but lack of ease-of-use is my biggest issue with Microsoft software.

[Cliff Saran's Blog]

Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP -

[Cross posted from the Enterprise Search Blog]

It’s been around 45 days since the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer closed and we’re moving quickly to provide interoperability for Microsoft customers between FAST ESP and Microsoft SharePoint Server.

Cross posted from the Sharepoint team blog...

Belated Announcement: SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper now available -

Announcing open source Podcasting Kit for SharePoint - the power of social media for the enterprise -

Cross posted from the Sharepoint Team Blog...

Microsoft's standards bid stalled - Four developing nations appeal a decision to ratify Microsoft's document format as an open standard.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Cross posted from the Sharepoint team blog...

Announcing the VSeWSS version 1.2! -

Hi everyone, Chris Johnson from the WSS PM team here.  We are really excited and pleased to announce that Version 1.2 of the Visual Studio extensions for WSS is now available for download!

This version adds Visual Studio 2008 support to the extensions.  This is something many of you have been asking for.

Developing Workflow Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation -

The courtship continues, as Yang signals Yahoo! open to MS deal...

Yahoo's Jerry Yang open to Microsoft deal - Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang said his company remained open to a potential deal...

[SOA News from Computer Weekly]

Cross posted from Sharepoint Team Blog...

An interesting idea from Microsoft to try and gain more ground in the Web search market...

Microsoft offers cash back search - Microsoft is offering shoppers cash rebates to use its new service in a bid to close the gap on market leader Google

[BBC UK Technology News]

New governance content for SharePoint published on TechNet -

Topics discussing Sharepoint Governance

Here are some topics to help you determine the aspects of your SharePoint deployment to govern and the methods to use:

Screencast: Using Word 2007 or Windows Live Writer to post to SharePoint blog Cross posted from SharePoint Team Blog...I am often asked about tools for publishing to a SharePoint blog. There are two great tools that interface with SharePoint seamlessly.