There is now a signup available at http://connect.microsoft.com for the Office 2010 beta. The direct link to the survey is: http://connect.microsoft.com/InvitationUse.aspx?ProgramID=3343&SiteID=160&InvitationID=Beta-PRJM-HVCM. Unfortunately it doesn’t guarantee access, and if you are granted access, it won’t happy until July. But nonetheless, it gets you into the pool of “applicants” for the beta. From there you just wait and see if you are accepted.
Can’t wait to get my hands on it! I’m here more and more about details, some rumors, some not, but the anticipation is building!
First of all, I realize I’m a little behind on this post. The truth is I started it over a week ago. The day after I started it, I lost my access to TechNet. It was a weird glitch with TechNet and I never found out what it was, but I was able to get to it again about 2 1/2 days later. As Murphy’s law would have it, shortly after that I had computer problems that let to a format. But finally, here it is:
Microsoft has add an stsadm reference on TechNet allowing you to “navigate through the stsadm commands with both WSS and SharePoint. You can filter commands are not in the UI, which commands were new with SP1, SP2. You can also view al the commands with a key that lets you see the same thing as the filters above.
The commands are also categorized so you can see which commands are available for Import and Export, General, Features and Solutions, etc. But, enough with my babling, go check it out for yourself!!
WSS - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/dd418924.aspx
MOSS – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/cc948709.aspx
That’s right, Microsoft latest ravamp of their search engine is not available and it is called Bing. Go check it out and www.bing.com. First off, I’m glad they changed the name from Live to Bing. Live Search just wasn’t unique enough. I’m interested to hear others thoughts on the name change as well.
I haven’t had a ton of time to play with the search, but the little I have done has seemed to be pretty good. Results from a search are similar to Google but not exact, which is to be expected. For all I know at this point in time, they could be better. I think a presupposition that “Google is always right” has been developed over the last few years, and who’s to say their search results will continue to be the best? I think every “new” search that comes along should be tried and evaluated as you never know when something better might come along. With that said, I’m definitely going to give Bing a shot.
Lastly, I do think it is rather interesting how similar the Bing interface looks to the Google interface. This is the biggest thing I’m not a fan of…not because I don’t like the interface, but it would be nice to see MS come up with an interface unique to their own. I understand, Google’s interface works for them, people like it, so why not model after their interface…it would just be nice to see a unique search interface some out of Microsoft as well, who knows, maybe something unique and different could be better that Google’s…you never know.