065. SharePoint: Office Builds Our Own Server

"SharePoint? You mean that thing I hate!" –BillG making sure I understood his real feelings about SharePoint

I admit up front this will be one of my favorite sections to offer. SharePoint was a remarkable point in the history of Office as we expanded the product line from desktop Win32 applications to include servers, a prelude to services. Within Microsoft this was by many accounts not only heretical, but also impossible. How could a team made up of “UI progr…