Today at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference, Microsoft’s, chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, announced that the public beta of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will become available next month.
During the event, some of the new features and capabilities were revealed to showcase the breadth of SharePoint 2010 that ranges from wiki’s to workflows. Highlighted features include:
- Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio, giving developers a premier experience with the tools they know and trust.
- Rich APIs and support for Silverlight, REST and LINQ, to help developers build applications fast on the SharePoint platform.
- Business connectivity services, which allow developers to connect capabilities to line-of-business data or web services in SharePoint and the Office client.
- New web content management features with built-in accessibility through WACG, multi-lingual support and one-click page layout, enabling anyone to access SharePoint sites.
- Built in support for rich media such as video, audio and Silverlight, making it easy to build dynamic web sites.
- A single platform that lets businesses deliver and manage advanced Internet, intranet and extranet capabilities easily and with fewer costs.
- Enterprise features such as Excel Services and InfoPath Forms Services, which make it simple to use, share, secure and manage interactive forms across an organization.
- The addition of two new SharePoint SKUs for Internet-facing sites, including an on-premises and hosted offer.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is part of the next wave of Microsoft Office-related products, which includes Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010, designed to give people the best productivity experience across PCs, phones and browsers.
The Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 public beta will become available in November 2009; more information is available at: http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/Pages/default.aspx
Source: Microsoft Australia Press Release
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This is really good news. Really can’t wait to get my hands on it. Thanks for sharing!
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Again looks promising as W7; however I’d be more interested to use Office 2010 resource usage; as alot of my older systems struggled with office 07 at high load while 03 worked better.
Though the file size diff between the .xxx and .xxxx was very nice to see; hope that gets optimised again.
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Well I personally love how Office 2010 loads very quickly, much quicker than 2007! It’s really looking good!
Hi,
This is an exciting news, I must keep an eye over the beta release so that I may get to experience 2010 as soon as possible. Integrating Visual Studio is more great to allow easy access to Microsoft tools…overall great.
- J.
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Just got another official email from Microsoft. Looks like we’ll be getting the beta on time (November) with some new features. Woohoo