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A very unusual keynote on Mix 08: Guy Kawasaki interviews Steve Ballmer. If you know Guy "10 points" Kawasaki, or Steve "Monkey" Ballmer, that should be enough to take a look. Really nice talk, so much better than the usual keynotes with boring marketing and overloaded powerpoint slides.

Sorry guys and girls...I'm a bit swamped (december-stress :) ) so I'm lagging on my blog postings.. That doesn't mean I don't run into some beauties of contributions to the SharePoint community though.   I suggest you take a look at the following resources:SharePoint CSS reference list -> clickForms Authentication in ...

Is that something...I'm at TechEd Barcelona right now and will be attending a session named "Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 for Search Code Name 'S2'  - what is it and What's New" at 17:00 today. Now I'm checking my email through CommNet here and I just received the announcement that Microsoft released a new ...

Since some time now you can download evaluation vpc's for several Microsoft products at http://www.microsoft.com/vhd If you click here you are redirected to a free 30 day trial VPC of MOSS 2007!   Go and try yourself, you'll need Virtual Server 2005 R2 to run this, but that available for download here

Through Steve Clayton, I found this link.   Basically, it's a few minutes video-demo about the 'surface' principle Microsoft announced a few weeks ago, put onto a Dell laptop and shown in action. Really interesting about this video is the technical explanation of Steve Hodges about how they created this prototype. I wonder ...

This is really great! You can now download an WPF application here which gives you an interactive way to browse through the Office Developer platform!.   If you are looking for VSTO or...let's say WCM, click on the map and it immediately show you namespaces, info and stuff. Go look for yourself!

Just found out I never added links to the MOSS language packs on my blog...shame on me! :-) The following links are useful:Sharepoint team blogpost on language packs: clickDirect download link: clickDeploy whitepaper: clickInstall whitepaper: clickPlanning whitepaper: clickHappy reading!

Over here you can download the updated whitepaper from Microsoft. It describes which things you can and cannot do using different versions of MS Office with WSS v3 and MOSS. Good reading material....I'll give away the conclusion though: 'Best' is achieved by using only Office 2007 clients with MOSS 2007! (surprising...huh? ...

Last week, I was in Madrid getting all fired up on Enterprise search using MOSS 2007. Ofcourse, we worked all day and night in order to give you guys the best redeliveries in the near future, however...you should always have fun while visiting a foreign city. On friday, me and Sander (from MS Netherlands) went on a tour through the town and had ...

I am quite a Formula 1 enthusiast and just read that Microsoft is getting into the sport!   As of the 2008 season, all teams will drive with the same ECU (Engine Control Unit) and the FIA tendered a contract for a standard supplier of these units.   Microsoft, in cooperation with Mclaren Electronic Systems, participated and this ...