Microsoft\u2019s global launch website http:\/\/www.the2010event.com<\/a> for the 2010 suite of products was built on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, reaching more than 60 countries and 26 languages worldwide. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n says the press release. CNet\u2019s Ina Fried has some more background<\/a>:<\/p>\n If we went with (SharePoint) 2007 we probably would have cut corners a little bit," said Carol Matthews, a senior marketing manager in Microsoft’s information worker team. Instead, she just had to convince boss Chris Capossela to bet the launch on a product that was still in testing. Microsoft does have an HTML-based backup for Wednesday’s launch, but Matthews said that has more to do with the unreliability of the Web than of SharePoint.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The hour came; and this is what the site delivered to me and, according to Twitter, many others:<\/p>\n By coincidence, this came just after I wrote a post<\/a> about SharePoint including this comment from a consultant<\/a>:<\/p>\n just because a thing can be done with SharePoint doesn\u2019t mean it should (for example, websites usually should NOT be built in SharePoint, in our opinion).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Maybe the technical hitch is nothing to do with SharePoint. Still, it\u2019s unfortunate. <\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: later on in the launch someone circulated an URL for watching the keynote directly in Windows Media Player. That worked fine \u2013 but bypassed all the SharePoint content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft has suffered an embarrassing technical problem at the launch of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. The pre-launch publicity made a big deal of how this launch was both web-based, with the keynote streamed globally, and built on SharePoint 2010. Microsoft\u2019s global launch website http:\/\/www.the2010event.com for the 2010 suite of products was built on Microsoft … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 web launch delivers blank web page<\/span> \n
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