Will Microsoft Bring Home the Gold in the SharePoint Olympics?
August 8, 2008
The Olympics are underway. If you have any questions, you will want to navigate to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games’ portal here. Ooops. That’s not the SharePoint site, and this MSDN article “SharePoint Server 2007 Powers Beijing 2008 Olympic Games” does not include a link to the SharePoint site. You can read this post, dated August 5, 2008l, here. The screenshot featured on the site does not look like any of the pages on the “official” site at http://en.beijing2008.cn/.
Here’s the “official” site’s look and feel:
And here’s the screen shot of Microsoft SharePoint and its “official” site:
I think I have figured out what’s going on, but it would be nice if the MSDN post contained links to pages, not screenshots without a url or trackback link. You can navigate to a July 2008 case study here and learn more about this high profile opportunity for SharePoint. Here’s the architecture diagram for the Microsoft system:
Compared to the SharePoint placemat diagram here, it seems to me that this Olympics’ diagram is a simplified schematic.
One oddity is that the drop down box that one uses to specify the viewer’s country is tough to control The video won’t play until you click on the country, but the scroll function is somewhat immature. The video is displayed on the NBColympics.com Web site, and I was puzzled by the design of that page.
A happy quack to the SharePoint team. Nothing but smooth sailing for the next couple of weeks.
Stephen Arnold, August 8, 2008
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