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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
We should really bug you in another thread, but we need an expose on how MS functions tech-wise internally - do they leverage Office to the nines compared to what you see out in the industry, or is there internal setup the same as any other place, with a mish-mash of PDF forms, email forms, and a smattering of InfoPath? How good is their internal Sharepoint, or is it as clumsy/crummy as most companies deployments? etc, etc.
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We leverage Office a TON and - in my role particularly - InfoPath forms are huge (we use them to track time, opportunities, expenses, and notes for customer engagements). We use shared OneNote files (distributed through SharePoint) to enable 'living' employee handbooks for certain roles. And a lot of our internal tools are based off of Microsoft Dynamics.
We have a lot of SharePoint-powered sites internally, and they do seem to work rather well. With ~100,000 people worldwide, I've only seen a sliver of the internal resources available via SharePoint. All of the "Hey, if you buy product X, you can use feature Y!" stuff, we typically have deployed - at least to some extent - in our own environment.
But yeah, the challenge for me using RT in day-to-day business is simply the inability to use InfoPath and Dynamics. So I use a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch.