RescueTime gets TechCrunch coverage using aggregate data they've collected (proving they not only have a great application, but are masters of developing content with high link-bait).

I've personally worked on products that account for 22% of total desktop usage (Outlook, Excel, Messenger). I wonder if the other product I co-founded (SharePoint) would also make the chart if RescueTime could recognize the various URL's as all being SharePoint web sites).

This site is the original Wiki. After I retired from Microsoft, I posted this link to Wiki's and the development of SharePoint. Now, we have come full circle, where Google's new Wiki project is claiming to be a "Sharepoint Killer".

The "Team Collaboration" category will continue to have many variations and spin-offs. I find it interesting that, on the internet, we have a very rich ecology of competing products across many categories. Compare to the relatively stagnant competition for desktop application software, where 90%+ of the market is held by the category leaders.

It may come to pass on the Internet eventually as well, but with the barriers to entry so slow, the competitive landscape may remain quite rich.

Quoted: SharePoint is, in some ways, a descendant of WikiWikiWeb. I think it was in 1995 (maybe 96), that I found WikiWikiWeb and was fascinated by the potential to have a Web-editing interface using a Web browser. I created a simple CGI program of my own, which I called QuickWeb. I was the Microsoft Outlook development manager at the time, and I created a QuickWeb Web site internally, that we could use in the development group. We ended up using it for status information, updating info about the current day's build, etc.
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When I was ready to move on from the Outlook team, I set off to create something more extensive, as an extension of the QuickWeb idea. I wanted to incorporate something with a richer data model; something with a real database behind it rather than as a collection of flat Web pages. I worked on my own for a couple of months, creating a prototype of what I called "TeamPages?".
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In order to make this a real Microsoft Product, I focused on integration with both Front Page and other Office applications, realizing that in order to be a success, TeamPages? would have to be a great way for teams to share their Office documents, as well as be an add-on to the standard Front Page Web editing tools.
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Eventually, my small team merged with the Front Page and OfficeWebServer? teams, and we became the SharePoint Team Services team. Our first product shipped with Office XP. Internally, at Microsoft, SharePoint has become a huge success. There are many thousands of internal team and project Web sites that have been created with SharePoint. It has all but entirely replaced the dumb File Share, as the de facto center of group collaboration.

Quoted: Explains how to back up and restore Windows SharePoint Services Web sites and Windows SharePoint Services content databases on the same server or on different servers.

Setting up sharepoint to use different URL's - use Alternate Access Mappings.

Google Workplace found in the sandbox. What's that?

Quoted: New Service (AKA Workplace): Maybe this is the big one people have been waiting for; the one that will really kill Microsoft Office. At least, ...

Hosted SharePoint is being offered by Microsoft as Office Live.

Quoted: Free web hosting, free e-mail, and web services from Microsoft Office Live

LInk to video of Bill's keynote on SharePoint 2006 Conference.

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0605/27595/BillG_MBR.asx

Sharepoint is King!

Bill: "...but the whole way that people think about information sharing, both within the company and outside the company, I think will be reshaped by the SharePoint platform. "

Quoted: Microsoft is hoping that social networking techniques will help win a few friends for its enterprise search technology.

The next release of Microsoft's SharePoint server software will have a feature called Knowledge Network that automatically builds profiles of employees and their areas of expertise.