No more carpal tunnel problems typing in “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” with the next version, it'll just be “Microsoft SharePoint 2010.” Ok, it's still a little long but it got rid of 12 characters, right? Plus, “MSP10” sounds a little weird for now but shaves a letter off too. These things are important. Going green on naming reduces the number of printed pages filled with “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Enterprise Edition.”
Feature talks include:
- much integration with Exchange Server 2010 (now available in beta)
- a Google Docs-like web integration (which I'm assuming is hosted locally and not in a Microsoft cloud)
- SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP but better integration and bigger
- The server software will be 64-bit only but probably won't last.
- Silverlight Media web parts
- Better accessibility/cleaner code generation
- Backup/Restore/Rollback and Snapshot backups with virtual load balancing Near automated build and replace
- Claims-based authentication
- Possible inclusion of InfoPath style web-based editor – since
Office 14 is allowing for some applications to be web-based with
limited functionality. Why not integrate some of those into SharePoint
vNext - SQL tables-like behaviour for SharePoint lists
- Custom filters won't be necessary to index and extract metadata from ODF and PDF files
- JQuery and SharePoint vNext
- Bi-directional BDC
- Publishing module rewritten, to change the faulty Export / Import process