All the tweets I was planning on sending during the keynote, but the WiFi was off. Here’s some of what Microsoft told us about SharePoint, Yammer and Office 365 :
- SharePoint is a way of life.
- 10000 attendees from 85 countries.
- SharePoint community lounge and TV is being syndicated to all the hotels.
- Microsoft sees SharePoint 2013 as a pivotal moment in the product line.
- Microsoft’s radical idea was websites for everybody, aimed at end users.
- And the predictable SharePoint pie chart, sigh.
- SharePoint is a $2billion product.
- The name of the game is agility.
- Cloud, mobile and social are no longer disruptive technologies, embrace them.
- SharePoint 2013 is the bridge of where Microsoft has come from and where they’re going.
- Experiences, innovation and ecosystem are the 3 pillars of SharePoint 2013.
- Jeff Teper is the father of SharePoint.
- There’s a billion office users that Microsoft wants to be able to handle in the cloud at once. #Office365
- Office365 will work on any device and any browser – we’ll see…
- Folders and subfolders Microsoft? Mmm.
- The drag and drop functionality in SharePoint 2013 will make end users very happy.
- The external sharing of docs and Skydrive in SharePoint 2013 has a very Dropboxy feel.
- Marketing dept’s are going to have let go of forced branding in SharePoint 2013, too easy for end users to do themselves.
- Sync’d tasks from every place in SharePoint and Outlook will be popular.
- SharePoint iPhone and iPad app from microsoft will be available early next year – yay!!!!!
- Do that data centre speed test from South Africa next time Microsoft.
- Yammer only 4 years old and bought by Microsoft, well done guys #SPC12keynote.
- Social is going to change the way business works. #Yammer
- Social networking can change the way information flows in a company.#Yammer
- 85% of Fortune 500 companies use Yammer.
- 61% of companies have an enterprise social network. #Yammer
- Social is the catalyst and solution to change. #Yammer
- Once people are more informed, it helps them connect better and get more engaged in their company. #Yammer
- The integration between Yammer and SharePoint is pretty darn cool!!
- Very hard to plan your schedule using MySPC with no wifi.
- Yammer will be included in the SharePoint Online and Office365 license – awesome!
- Enterprise Collaboration Leader role at Nationwide – love that title!
- Yammer is your electronic water cooler!
- The search experience in enterprise SharePoint 2013 is very slick.
- More important than ever to teach end users to start using search instead of click through to find content.
- You can use any design tool you want to create websites in SharePoint 2013, not just SPD.
- Access denied during the demo “seriously, it’s Dreamweaver” Lol.
- You can divorce content from the page layout and use search to drive the user experience.
- Drag and drop docs from emails straight to SharePoint 2013 libraries in Outlook – freakin’ awesome!
- 40% improvement in bandwidth in Office 365.
This article was originally posted here.