This is an excellent comparison of WSS with SPS2003, MOSS standard and MOSS Enterprise. It is a simple Excel file with worksheets for each of the main components.
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Site for outsourcing all kinds of work ranging from Graphic Design, Software Development, Research, Writing, Admin services. www.elance.com
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Site for outsourcing software development projects. www.rentacoder.com
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This is a pretty cool site for translating web sites. Here's an example translating my site into Arabic. We tested it at the office with the Elcom site into Korean and our Korean developers were pretty amused – there's still a way to go with artificial translation it seems…
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A nice collection of links, categorised helpfully. eg there are sections for Developers, BI, SQL 2008, etc
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Over at VirtualHosting the goodness keeps on coming. This post on the results of eye tracking studies is interesting reading and a good checklist for improving the 'real' usability of your site.
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Get it here. I recommend it. I've been using it for ages, the Betas have been good and now it is finally released.
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The much respected Jakob Nielsen tells us to write articles, not blogs. I've never agreed with much of Mr Nielsen's writings, and this latest blog post (oops, I mean AlertBox article) from him is indicative of why. On my reading he basically equates blogs with hastily written, low in substance entries, and thus to be avoided. Kind of like this entry really! By golly, it's just lucky...
iTnews reports that Microsoft will remove a 'feature' (yes, feature) from IE. The supposed feature is that really annoying behavior that required users to click on an ActiveX control to enable it, before they could use it. This is most common when trying to activate Flash movies on a site for example. How much did this feature cost? Just a measly $521 million. The mind boggles. Not...
Yes, the race to ship as many different versions of all the different products continues. You thought they were stretching it with Vista and its many flavors. Well, not to be outdone, the upcoming Windows Server 2008 will come in 8 SKUs.
Who's up for buying one of each :-)
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