Excel Services and SharePoint 2007

SharePoint 2007 didn't magically appear on the scene in 2006—it does, in fact, have a long, rich history. It all started with a product called Site Server, released around 1997, that contained Web content management, personalization, document management, and search services. Site Server morphed into Commerce Server, which was, in turn, replaced with a new product called Digital Dashboard Starter Kit. Digital Dashboard introduced the concept of Web Parts as pluggable bits of functionality that could be added to a Web page.

Digital Dashboard churned through a few revisions and improved its Web portal offering along the way. The feature set of Digital Dashboard merged with a new product called Tahoe and was renamed ...

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