From the birth of Hyper-V to Bill Gates' retirement, 2008 was an eventful year for Microsoft.  Here's #7 from the list:

The year of SharePoint. The buzz around SharePoint in 2008 was everywhere. At TechEd 2008, Microsoft's biggest tech conference, it seemed like all the vendors wanted to push that they had books on SharePoint, training about SharePoint, products that work with SharePoint or back up SharePoint ... you get the point.

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