SharePoint 2007 vs Drupal

Published on 12 February 2007 • Estimated reading time: 1 minutes

You know what’s really great about SharePoint 2007 (which www.informationworker.co.za runs on) vs. Drupal, which this site runs on? I can type my content in Word 2007 or copy and paste from Outlook directly into Word 2007, then publish with a few clicks (Office button → Publish → Blog), and get full rich text editing, the ability to save and revisit the draft, and even spell-check.

Here, I have to log in, navigate through the site to create content, then to the blog section, and type it all out manually. If I want to add a link, I have to manually enter the <a href> tags (and hell, just to make the angle brackets appear, I had to use <). The experience is just that much more cumbersome.

I know there are Drupal add-ons that can give me rich editing—but that requires extra work to install. I’ve even seen users claim it’s possible to publish from Word 2007 to Drupal, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how. There’s no compatible format listed under blog providers or the "Other" options.

Again, SharePoint 2007 + Word 2007 means users don’t need to worry about Drupal modules or special blog providers. It’s simpler, better(?), and faster! 😉