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MS actually did this already like 15 years ago. It may have been an Intranet-oriented thing. The end result was that users could add notes to pages. I think it

MS actually did this already like 15 years ago. It may have been an Intranet-oriented thing. The end result was that users could add notes to pages. I think it died off with the rest of the Office-web thingies. Edit: It was Office 2000 that enabled this, called "Web Discussions". You had a "Discussion" button in IE[1]. Here's a paper talking about how useful it was: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/coet/annotations/cscw2000/paper.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/coet/a... 1: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751423.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751423.aspx

frik 12y ago
> Intranet-oriented thing It used the discussion feature of Microsoft Office Server aka SharePoint Portal Server. The history of SharePoint is very complex but interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20120419073951/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joelo/archive/2007/12/28/7-years-of-sharepoint-a-history-lesson.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20120419073951/http://blogs.msdn... , https://web.archive.org/web/20080303180618/http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/12/27/sharepoint-yes-we-ve-certainly-come-a-long-way-and-happy-new-year-to-you.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20080303180618/http://blogs.msdn... , https://web.archive.org/web/20120409232321/http://www.joiningdots.net/downloads/SharePoint_History.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20120409232321/http://www.joinin..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint , https://web.archive.org/web/20120519235139/http://www.seoconsultants.com/frontpage/history/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120519235139/http://www.seocon... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage I remember an SP2003 installation with thousands of sub portal sites, hundreds of GB (blobs) stored in SQL server. What I really don't understand is the almost non-existing upgrade paths (between versions '01, '03, '07, '10, '13) and the URL-hell (IIS URL alias would solve that). Instead of Cairo-OS, WinFS, an improved Explorer shell & improved file server, nowadays SharePoint fulfill various enterprise needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

frik 12y ago

> Intranet-oriented thing It used the discussion feature of Microsoft Office Server aka SharePoint Portal Server. The history of SharePoint is very complex but interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20120419073951/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joelo/archive/2007/12/28/7-years-of-sharepoint-a-history-lesson.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20120419073951/http://blogs.msdn... , https://web.archive.org/web/20080303180618/http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/12/27/sharepoint-yes-we-ve-certainly-come-a-long-way-and-happy-new-year-to-you.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20080303180618/http://blogs.msdn... , https://web.archive.org/web/20120409232321/http://www.joiningdots.net/downloads/SharePoint_History.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20120409232321/http://www.joinin..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint , https://web.archive.org/web/20120519235139/http://www.seoconsultants.com/frontpage/history/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120519235139/http://www.seocon... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage I remember an SP2003 installation with thousands of sub portal sites, hundreds of GB (blobs) stored in SQL server. What I really don't understand is the almost non-existing upgrade paths (between versions '01, '03, '07, '10, '13) and the URL-hell (IIS URL alias would solve that). Instead of Cairo-OS, WinFS, an improved Explorer shell & improved file server, nowadays SharePoint fulfill various enterprise needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS