It just occurred to me that Microsoft’s OneNote, the application “for capturing, organizing, and collaboratively sharing information”, would work well as a front-end to a Wiki.

For example: A Wiki server could act as repository for publishing shared OneNote pages that in turn can be collaborated on either via the browser (in the true Wiki sense) or within the OneNote application itself.

IMHO, this type of integration would push Wiki’s into corporate environments where knowledge management seems to involve too much post-processing work.

I didn’t see this feature in the latest beta of FP 2003, but according to this article on CRN FrontPage 2003 will include a blogging tool.

However, what I also found interesting is that FP 2003 will also “incorporate a full WYSIWYG editor for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT)”,

Very cool!

Hmmm… Perhaps I missed that in the beta. (note to self: re-check FP 2003 beta)

It would be pretty cool to get an RSS-2-SPOT gateway up and running so we can read our newsfeeds inbetween trips to the fridge for that next beer ;-)

“Microsoft has revealed details of its wireless service for personal devices as it tests the network prior to the availability of products due in the fall. “(via CNet)

Martin sent me a link to this article by Alexander Wolfe of EmbeddedWatch.com about Microsoft newly granted US patent for “interactive entertainment”.

To quote Alexander…

“[Microsoft’s]… patent [number 6,571,390] appears to claim the invention of networked interactive entertainment.”

Hmm, I wonder what this will mean for video-on-demand systems and perhaps even network-capable PVRs like Replay and hacked TiVo’s.

Ben Schorr has put together a useful OneNote FAQ

I’m not surprised by the following announcement and in my opinion, this could make SharePoint Portal as ubiquitous as Office; if Microsoft can find the pricing sweet-spot.

“Microsoft plans to add its SharePoint business portal software to its Office bundle, as the company looks to broaden the appeal of its desktop software. ” (via cnet)

I installed Office 2003 Beta 2 the other day and for the most part I’m very pleased and feel much of the hype is justified.

In particular, I see a lot of potential with the native XML capabilities — especially with respect to InfoPath. Although, I’m puzzled by Microsoft’s recent announcement that InfoPath will not be included as part of the retail Office 2003 “system”.

Otherwise, I think they did an excellent job with the updated visual prioritization of information in Outlook 2003.

cnet: “Microsoft will not include InfoPath and OneNote as part of the Office suite sold at retail or installed on new computers.”

I think this is a missed opportunity to broadly push InfoPath out to the masses.

I found Woody Leeonhard’s interesting tidbits on Office 2003 Beta while searching Google Groups for info on installing SharePoint Beta 2.

Still no luck with SharePoint, but Wood’s tips are worth a read.

From Business 2.0’s The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

“One question might be, and I’ll be as direct as I can be about this, what is .Net? Unlike Windows, where you could say it’s a product, it sits in one place, it’s got a nice little box. In some senses, it’s a very good question.”
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at a Microsoft .Net briefing day in July

“We don’t have the user-centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence — presence is the most trivial notion of context.”
– Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the same topic at the same briefing