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Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/8/2011

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Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup!  The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community…Enjoy!

Top 5 Picks for This Week:

Happy 10th Birthday SharePoint

“This week is the 10th anniversary of the first release of the SharePoint Portal and Team Services. Since 2001, when the first version of SharePoint was released, we have had a chance to use 4 different versions of this fastest growing Microsoft Server product”

Why Internet Explorer will Survive and Firefox Won’t

“It took more than 15 years for Internet Explorer to work its way through nine versions. Firefox, which used to be the agile upstart, has taken nearly two years to progress from version 3.5 and nearly three years from version 3.0”

April 4, 1975: Bill Gates & Paul Allen Form A Little Partnership

“Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world’s richest people”

Microsoft & Toyota Team Up on Digital Auto Network

“The world's biggest software company and the biggest automaker said they were investing about $12 million (1 billion yen) in Toyota Media Service Co, a Toyota unit that handles its digital offerings for customers”

 Microsoft Launches Bing App for iPad

“As if we needed more evidence of Microsoft's better support for competing mobile platforms than for Windows Phone, the company today announces a new Bing mobile app ... for iPad”

 

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