Tune In Today for the Future of Productivity Webcasts on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 As Part Of the Official Product Launch!!

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This past year, really starting back in October, has been an amazing one. In October we had the annual SharePoint conference in Los Vegas and this time the conference welcomed the addition of Microsoft Office. The energy and excitement by product users, partners and vendors was amazing and readily evident everywhere you went. That was just the beginning. During the interim time the amazing folks back in Redmond who had been working on SharePoint and Office continued to keep their eyes on the mark as they worked to finish off a product stack unlike any other in terms of productivity enablement. Even as the product teams raced to complete their offerings excitement continued to snowball amongst customers and demand for presentations on SharePoint/Office 2010 increased. Along the way folks clamored for access to Excel Services with PowerPivot, Access Services, Visio Services, Digital Asset Management and video streaming, and so on. For quite some time I have been saying that in terms of being a game changer this is the most significant product release by Microsoft since Windows 95 and the energy and demand around it are truly evidence of the impact potential this release has. Still though, demand has been around a beta offering, not quite ready for production systems (although several organizations readily implemented that same beta offering in production) until now.

Today marks the official launch of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010!! To kick off the launch there are a number of events and resources to help customers, partners, and vendors get the information they need to get ramped up. First and foremost Microsoft has set up a website to host a worldwide virtual launch. Yes the site is running on SharePoint 2010! You can find the launch site here. There will be a series of live webcasts delivered from the site starting with the big kickoff at 11am EDT. In all there will be a total of 20 live webcast at different times that you can tune in to depending on your area of interest and focus so be sure to take some time and tune in!

Today is a day so many of us have been waiting for and I am so glad it is finally here. I can't wait to see the innovative ways in which customers will be using SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 to solve real world business problems with this new powerful set of tools at their disposal. Productivity with these products truly will be a grand adventure. Below are several resources to help get you started. :-)

Michael Gannotti is a Technology Specialist for the Microsoft Corporation and the author of the blog SocialMedia Talk. You can also find him on Facebook and Twitter.

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