The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technology blog just posted on the best way to update a blog on SharePoint. They suggest two pieces of client software:
While I’m sure both of these are great programs, and good ways to generate rich content; promoting the use of client software as a way of interacting with web-based social media applications is a view that, in this day and age, might be held uniquely by Microsoft. SharePoint, which has gained admirable market share amongst “Old IT”, seems to eschew online content creation. While I’m not saying that TinyMCE (used as the GUI text editor in our firm’s Confluence deployment) or Google Docs are as feature-rich as Word, there is certainly a lot of effort being expended to get them closer. This begs the question: When will Microsoft start building web-based versions of Word and the other Office suite members? Albany seems a half-hearted attempt at a SaaS model.
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1 Microsoft » Blog Archive » SharePoint & Web 2.0 // May 19, 2008 at 6:53 am
[...] Cow’s Blog: Science, technology and the internet. wrote an interesting post today on SharePoint & Web 2.0Here’s a quick excerptThey suggest two pieces of client software: Microsoft Word 2007 or. Windows Live Writer. While both of these are great programs, and good ways to… [...]
2 Nate Nash // May 19, 2008 at 9:12 am
Gotta love MS. As a side note I tend to think that people either get too bogged down in the rich formatting capabilities of MS Word, or have no idea they are even there. I would rather people not have the option to think about formatting, and instead focus on producing quality content.
3 SharePoint & Web 2.0 Part Deux // May 28, 2008 at 5:19 pm
[...] it’s always a good idea to keep abreast of what SharePoint offers when it comes to E2.0. I blogged before about how Microsoft is avoiding rolling content creation capabilities into the platform to preserve [...]
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