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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Why...

...is Sharepoint the suckiest thing on this planet?

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13 comments:

Florian said...

Simple, it is slow as hell, provides the illusion of a repository, yet lacking features like synchronize, or checking in multiple files at once. On top of that it's acive-x fragfest which makes it only run on IExploder.

1/27/2005 3:41 AM
Anonymous said...

Slow? Try running it on real hardware. It's not slow for us.

We also have several employees using Firefox with SharePoint with very few problems. There are almost no activex components used. It's almost entirely html + jscript.

I recommend you talk about things you know -- SharePoint is obviously not one of them.

1/27/2005 5:05 AM
Patrick Logan said...

Speed is not the issue.

1/27/2005 5:56 AM
Anonymous said...

What is, then? ... those of us who don't have opportunity to use it but had guessed that it might suck want to know.

1/27/2005 8:21 AM
Anonymous said...

The average slashdot post has less trollness than this blog post.

1/27/2005 10:17 AM
Anonymous said...

Yeah, I have to second the other anonymous guy. It's your post, why not say why Sharepoint is the suckiest thing on the planet?

1/27/2005 10:30 AM
Patrick Logan said...

As evidenced by my lack of evidence, I blogged this in a fit of frustration. I need to use Sharepoint primarily to schedule or to follow schedules, and as a file system.

The bottom line for me right now with just a beginner's experience of SP is that the developers could learn a thing or two from systems like Gmail. With all the widgets and whatnots for web interfaces these days, why is the interface to Sharepoint so damned non-functional?

Microsoft owns the file explorer and the Sharepoint "explorer" I guess it should be called. Why is one the Sharepoint explorer not even remotely as functional as the file explorer?

1/27/2005 1:48 PM
Anonymous said...

Probably because SharePoint explorer is a web based interface and Explorer is a desktop application (that can also host web pages)?

Did you know that SharePoint supports WebDAV so you can access document libraries with a network path like this
\\MySharePointServer\MySite\MyDocumentLibrary?

You can also map network drives.

1/27/2005 2:02 PM
Anonymous said...

Also, how would the developers have learned something from a product that wasn't released until long after theirs?

1/27/2005 2:03 PM
Patrick Logan said...

Please no more unimaginative defenses of Sharepoint on this blog.

Thanks. I'm done here.

1/28/2005 5:39 AM
Patrick Logan said...

But thanks for the WebDAV tip. I'll look into that.

1/28/2005 5:41 AM
Anonymous said...

Unimaginitive defenses for an incredibly uninformed attack?

1/28/2005 9:19 AM
Patrick Logan said...

Agreed. This was a spur of the moment rant, not an argument.

1/28/2005 10:16 AM

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