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5月2日

Playing with Microsoft Virtual Earth

Last week I had some spare time and I thought to look into Virtual Earth offerings from Microsoft.

i.e Microsoft Virtual Earth, your can find it here

I found it a bit interesting and thought to spend some time playing with some of the API provided with the SDK.

Soon I was able to create a simple ASP.NET application integrated with Virtual Earth, with some basic functionality like Search, Zoom, Find route etc.

See a screen shot of my application

  VirtualEarth_Application

You can find a very good Virtual Earth Interactive SDK here

I also tried using MSR Map Cruncher, but as detailed view of Indian region is not available on the Virtual Earth , integrating Map Cruncher with Virtual Earth did not look that good..

Nevertheless, you will find some of the feature in Virtual Earth SDK to be very interesting like 3D view, Birds View etc.

There is a very interesting Case study , which you will find interesting. Find it here

3月6日

Taking collaboration to a new level using

  • Live Work Space

http://workspace.officelive.com

  • Microsoft SharedView

http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=94

  • SkyDrive

http://skydrive.live.com/welcomemoreinfo.aspx

  • Microsoft Online Services

http://www.microsoft.com/online/learn.mspx

  • Folder Share through Windows Live Messenger
  • Microsoft Live Events etc..

Great going ...

9月25日

Collaboration using Microsoft Technologies

Today I spent some time looking into MOSS 2007, yes too late for some people, but for people like me who have only  worked on Systems Integrations and have no time to think beyond BizTalk, WCF, WF, some ASP.NET and BI too.

SharePoint was a new thing to me, at least the hands on..

One of my good friends  "Awwab” helped me in getting started with MOSS 2007.

It seems that Microsoft has done a really good job with the MOSS 2007.

Collaboration, Workflows, enterprise search, Enhances security, Business Data Objects, Wiki, Blogs, Alerts, KPI, Integration with Outlook.. and the list goes on….

For a complete list of feature comparison b/w SPS 2003 & MOSS 2007 look here..

Also some more good links here

So what do Microsoft has in its hands for Collaboration in an enterprise and across enterprises

  1. Microsoft Office Communication Server
  2. Microsoft Exchange Server
  3. MOSS 2007
  4. Live Meeting
  5. Communicator

The office communication server has also evolved from “Live Communication Server”, with many features like “software-powered VoIP solution that can stand on its own or integrate easily with an existing PBX infrastructure”, IM, conferencing etc..

Looks like Microsoft stack provides some really good functionality..

But what is the future of collaboration, are companies trying some out of box thinking???