Foreword

Remembering back to the late nineties, I can still recall when we decided to start building a product code-named Tahoe. For those of you who don’t keep up on our code names here at Microsoft, Tahoe was the code name for SharePoint Portal Server 2001. At the time, I was in the Exchange Server group, which supplied the underlying storage technology to the Tahoe team. Many folks, including myself, were nervous about how customers and partners would accept the new technology, especially given that it provided portal, enterprise search, and document management functionality, of which two of the three were completely new categories offered in Microsoft software.

Fast forward to 2010, and we’re just about to release the latest version of SharePoint: ...

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