SharePoint & Web 2.0 Part Deux

Since we come face to face with it so frequently in the enterprise, 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 other revenue streams, but there is still a lot of attention being paid to how to make SharePoint credible for social media, folkonsmies, etc. SharePoint, SharePoint and stuff posted The Ultimate List of SharePoint Add Ons and Tools for Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 And Social Networking Features . I’ll also take a moment to plug my personal favorite: Atlassian’s SharePoint connector for Confluence. SharePoint excels at wrangling Office-format documents, but will require substantial tweaking to be a viable social computing platform.

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1 Paula Thornton // May 29, 2008 at 10:47 am

I’m wondering when they’re going to support basic content editing in the more ‘open’ platforms rather than just IE. I couldn’t believe that even in 2007 I can’t get the normal editing features in Flock/FireFox.
2 Nate Nash // May 29, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Agreed. Maybe never?

Seems to me that Microsoft’s strategy to keep Office licensing alive is deny browser functionality. Take spellchecking. Clearly not the role of a browser. One must spellcheck in Word.
3 Jay Hariani // May 29, 2008 at 1:50 pm

Nate and Paula - Thanks for the feedback.

Microsoft’s choice to not add spell checking to IE is an interesting reflection of how they want to position the browser as a component of the Windows ecosystem, rather then a platform (and possibly some kind of internal dispute - I can’t imagine the IE 8 team not thinking this was a good feature to add).

As far as I can tell, there is no plan to add this to IE 8. There are, of course, 3rd-party alternatives, but still.

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