The journey ofMicrosoft's productivity suite started in the '80s when it was first introduced by Bill Gates as Microsoft Office, with three applications: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Since then, Office applications have captured the corporate world and home users alike. Anyone who has ever used a PC has had some experience with Microsoft Office at some point. It is hard to imagine a world without Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These applications have transformed the world since the day they were launched.
While one team in Microsoft was busy improving the already popular office suite of applications, another team was busy shaping an enterprise-scale collaboration and content-management platform called SharePoint.This platform offered online document storage and enabled collaboration between teams. In addition, and since its days of inception, SharePoint was built to be a highly extensible and customizable platform that allows developers...