Microsoft Expands SharePoint Learning Kit, Partners With Houghton
July 2, 2008: Redmondmag.com
Microsoft unveiled an addition to its SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), a suite of tools for helping developers build education solutions.

CIO 100 2008 Winner - Viacom
June 2008: CIO
Using Microsoft SharePoint for use, allowed the media giant to give its business groups a single source of information as well as a standardized process for collaboration that is cost-effective, easy to use, and integrates with the existing IT infrastructure.

Gate's 4 Golden Rules
June 20, 2008: CNN Money.com
Bill Gates may walk out the door on July 1, but he leaves a lasting impression. These are four of his core beliefs that are likely to carry on at the company he founded.

Using MS Sharepoint in a Major Construction Effort
June 16, 2008: Network World
"Organizations see SharePoint as a backbone for getting more control over large amounts of unstructured data," says Rob Koplowitz, a principal analyst with Forrester Research who specializes in information and knowledge management tools.

Enterprise 2.0: Wachovia Turns To Wikis, Blogs To Support Growth
June 11, 2008: InformationWeek
To connect its 100,000-plus employees, the financial services company is rolling out a slew of new collaboration tools anchored by Microsoft's SharePoint Server.

SharePoint Server 2007 is Enterprise 2.0 Platform of Choice
June 9, 2008: Microsoft PressPass
Microsoft showcases social-computing innovation from customers and partners and unveils Podcasting Kit for SharePoint.

Microsoft, other firms take aim at Enterprise 2.0 market with new tools
June 9, 2008: Computerworld
Microsoft Corp. and a slew of other companies will roll out new tools this week designed to help companies meld internal data with social networks, mashups or other tools like iGoogle that originated in the Web 2.0 world.

SharePoint: A Legal Killer App
June 2008: ABA Journal
Today, it's beginning to look a lot like Microsoft has another "Point" tool that might change the way lawyers collaborate.

Microsoft Launches SharePoint Deployment Planning Services
May 19, 2008: Redmond Channel Partner
Microsoft is boosting its channel offerings with the launch of SharePoint Deployment Planning Services, a program designed to help customers with the implementation of SharePoint.

Deploying SharePoint Server? Here's a Plan
May 19, 2008: InternetNews.com
Microsoft offers its volume license Software Assurance customers help with deployment planning for SharePoint Server.

MOSS Adoption Exploding in Europe
April 03, 2008: CMS Wire
Looks like Europe also hangs out on the SharePoint bandwagon. This news is according to the content management association—AIIM Europe.

SharePoint altering ECM landscape, survey says
April 02, 2008: Network World
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 adoption is changing the face of content and document management, but is still not mature enough handle some jobs, according to a survey released by Forrester.

The CIO and Sharepoint
March 28, 2008: InformationWeek
Why should CIOs pay close attention to this particular Microsoft product (as opposed to the myriad others you support in your organization)? Because it's viral (meaning its use is probably growing in your company, whether you know it or not), and it needs to be managed closely to get the most of out it.

SharePoint Server Is Taking Businesses by Storm
March 26, 2008: Network World
Microsoft's SharePoint Server product is becoming the IT industry's new must-have technology, offering tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites.

Microsoft SharePoint Sales To Hit $1 Billion In 2008
March 3, 2008: InformationWeek
With more companies looking to make critical information easily accessible to and shareable with employees, Microsoft said Monday that it expects total sales of its SharePoint online collaboration software will surpass the $1 billion mark in 2008.

Microsoft To Offer Online Services To Businesses Of All Sizes
March 3, 2008: ChannelWeb
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) will make its Microsoft Online Services available to businesses of all sizes, the company announced Monday, possibly bringing it into conflict with channel partners who resell Microsoft's Web-hosted applications to small and midsize businesses.

SharePoint Conference 2008 News
March 3, 2008: Microsoft Virtual Press Room
Today, at the SharePoint Conference in Seattle, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will offer Exchange Online and SharePoint Online as a per user subscription to all organizations of all sizes, the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint, and the general availability of Microsoft Search Server Express 2008.

Assessing SharePoint as an ECM Platform
Jan 17, 2008: CMS Wire
Microsoft has quickly created a major presence in the enterprise content management (ECM) market with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Get insight into the increasingly popular platform.

Microsoft's bid for FAST bolsters enterprise search
Jan 8, 2008: InfoWorld
Microsoft's $1.2 billion offer for FAST marks the arrival of enterprise search as a software category, and analysts predict more consolidation and opportunities.

Review: Redmond Outgrows Portal
September 10, 2007: CRN Tech, Mario Morejon
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers a lot more than just portal capabilities. It is one of the best platforms for developing .NET applications for the web.

The great Office Server smorgasbord Part 3: forms and flexibility with Forms Server 2007
August 27, 2007: InfoWorld
The combination of InfoPath 2007 and Forms Server 2007 is unbeatable for forms processing and internal business intelligence capability.

The great Office Server smorgasbord: SharePoint 2007
August 13, 2007: InfoWorld
InfoWorld review gives SharePoint Server 2007 high ratings on ease-of-use and feature capabilities.

SharePoint Server makes collaboration easier (Login required for full article)
April 11, 2007: Network World, Travis Berkley
"With the release of Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft has made some dramatic changes to its popular collaboration software. Our Clear Choice Test of the SharePoint collaboration and content-management server found the new version easier than its predecessor to install and use."

Microsoft cures its connectile dysfunction
February 7, 2007: InfoWorld, Oliver Rist
"Most important: It's all about collaboration. SharePoint used to be pretty much an HTML-based Web site that could talk to public folders. Now you've got personal vs. team sharing built right in. Users looking at their default SharePoint pages for the first time have immediate tools to build the usual SharePoint goodies..."

SharePoint Server 2007 Is an (Able) Jack of all Trades
January 11, 2007: eWEEK, Jim Rapoza
"Most importantly—and the reason for which eWEEK Labs has given the platform an Analyst's Choice award—SharePoint Server 2007 is the best product we've seen for getting a capable and feature-rich enterprise Web platform up and running quickly."

Introducing Extraordinary Capabilities in Dynamic Site Design with SharePoint
October 11, 2006: Computerworld, Richard Ericson
Get a complete lowdown on the 2007 Microsoft Office system with a section on the dynamic site design of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and its interaction with Office applications.

Announcing SharePoint Products and Technologies Service Pack 1 Resource Center
December 11, 2007: SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog
These service packs include a number of hot fixes across Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services, new Stsadm commands for repartitioning databases and renaming host site collections, and updates to documentation that address performance and capacity planning concerns.

Congratulations! Del Monte won 2007 InfoWorld 100 Award
November 12, 2007: InfoWorld
Del Monte honored for its SharePoint Server implementation. This year's recipients of InfoWorld's highest honor are shining examples of IT projects undertaken by tech leaders committed to pushing their organizations forward.

Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express
November 6, 2007: Microsoft PressPass
Microsoft unveils new enterprise search products, including one available as a free download.

Will Microsoft Become Facebook for the Enterprise?
September 12, 2007: Edward Cone
The nation's fourth largest bank will roll out a social networking service for 110,000 employees using Microsoft SharePoint Server product.

Microsoft Partners Stake Claims In SharePoint Goldmine
August 15, 2007: CRN, Kevin McLaughlin
It's getting tough to find a Microsoft partner who isn't either reaping the financial benefits of deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 or eagerly planning to add it.

SharePoint Server 2007 Turning Point
July 30, 2007: Government Computer News, David Essex
"[SharePoint Server] 2007 is an entirely different ballgame," said Peter O'Kelly, research director at Burton Group. "Everything we've seen so far says it's worked pretty effectively and scaled pretty well."

Microsoft, Big ECM, and Big Pharma
July 3, 2007: CMS Watch, Alan Pelz-Sharpe
"Pharma was supposed to be sacred ground for the big ECM vendors—the one area of turf where few really thought Microsoft would tread."

Microsoft Adds Web 2.0 Enhancements To SharePoint
June 20, 2007: InformationWeek, W. David Gardner
Read David Gardner's interview with Derek Burney, general manager of SharePoint Platform & Tools, on the Web 2.0 technologies Microsoft is delivering under the SharePoint platform. The article also references how customers like Hawaiian Airlines and the Body Shop are using SharePoint Server 2007 for their external facing Web sites.

Microsoft does 'social computing' with SharePoint
June 19, 2007: CNET News.com, Martin LaMonica
Microsoft announced Community Kit for SharePoint, a Web add-on that enables businesses to take advantage of "Enterprise 2.0" services, such as enhancing a blog's look, better wiki tools, and a tag cloud feature.

Windows SharePoint hits its stride
June 6, 2007: TechTarget, Margie Semilof
Read how SharePoint Server 2007 is gaining traction and popularity among IT administrators as the integrated server solution for managing content and processes.

Green Mountain Gets the (Share) Point
June 1, 2007: Redmond Magazine, Michael Desmond
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. deploys a SharePoint Server 2007 web-based portal to solve data-sharing problems. Jim Travis, director of sales and marketing, says the impact the initial SharePoint deployment is having on his sales and marketing teams has caused "a deeper appreciation of the metrics behind the business."

SharePoint Server 2007 Wins Readers' Choice Award for Best Content Management System
June, 2007: asp.netPRO, David Riggs
The readers of asp.netPRO magazine have voted SharePoint Server 2007 the best content management system for ASP.NET development.

SharePoint Server 2007 Receives Department of Defense Certification
May 29, 2007: Microsoft.com
SharePoint Server 2007 has received U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 certification for managing records and documents. This page includes a link to the full press release plus additional information about this standard and add-on pack.

Chevron Chooses SharePoint for Collaboration and Search
May 8, 2007: The Wall Street Journal, Pui-Wing Tam
Oil company Chevron plans to deploy SharePoint Server to help reduce the flood of office documents that raise storage costs and decrease worker productivity. (Subscription required for full WSJ.com article).

MOSS Gathers Momentum - Readers rave about the new and improved Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
May, 2007: Redmond Magazine, Joanne Cummings
"With SharePoint, we've shown the management people that yes, you can really keep a project on track with team members dispersed all over the country and all over the world."

SharePoint Server 2007 Taking Leads in Collaboration Business Software Market (Subscription required for full WSJ.com article)
April 24, 2007: The Wall Street Journal Online, Robert A. Guth
Miami-Dade County Public Schools created a SharePoint application to help students and teachers collaborate, with over 50,000 students accessing the system within the first two months.

Microsoft to big business: Think young
April 18, 2007: CNET News.com, Candace Lombardi
Read how Microsoft is embracing Web 2.0 tools as part of its Enterprise Content Management strategy.

Fear and SharePoint: Trends Seen at AIIM Expo
April 18, 2007: The Intelligent Enterprise Weblog, Doug Henschen
"SharePoint already has some 10,000 corporate customers and more seats than all other ECM vendors combined, by some estimates. So it's not surprising that fresh announcements about SharePoint integrations are a dime a dozen here at AIIM Expo."

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 won Readers' Choice Award for Best Collaboration
April 17, 2007: AIIM - The Enterprise Content Management Association
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 has won the AIIM E-DOC Magazine Readers' Choice Award for best collaboration. These awards recognize software and hardware manufacturers in the enterprise content management industry as selected by the readers of the magazine.

Microsoft Builds Media Management Offering on SharePoint
April 16, 2007: CMSWire, Brice Dunwoodie
Introducing the new Interactive Media Manager, a next-generation content management solution that combines digital work flows and media application integration in a collaborative environment built on core strengths of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Most Business Tech Pros Wary About Web 2.0 Tools in Business
February 24, 2007: Information Week, Nicholas Hoover
Learn the concerns enterprises have about the security, return on investment, and employees' adoption of Web 2.0 business tools. Find out how corporations are using SharePoint Products and Technologies and the 2007 Microsoft Office system to improve their collaboration platform.

SharePoint Server 2007 Makes eWeek's Top 5 Web Application Developments
December 2006: eWEEK, Jim Rapoza
SharePoint Server 2007 includes a cornucopia of new template options for quickly building a wide variety of Web sites, portals and community pages as well as much-improved workflow and routing features.

Readers' Choice: Windows SharePoint Services Won Best Collaboration for the Messaging Category
September 2006: Windows IT Pro
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services outstripped the competition and took first place for Collaboration solution.

Readers' Choice: Windows SharePoint Services Won Best Document Management/Imaging Software in the Business Applications Category
September 2006: Windows IT Pro
Document management systems are becoming an essential part of the modern enterprise's collaborative work environment. According to Windows IT Pro readers, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is the leading technology in this space.