Microsoft SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 is the upcoming Microsoft product, which will be launched in first half of 2010, along with Office 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010. Beta version has already been introduced for SharePoint 2010 in February 2009 internally. SharePoint 2010 will no longer be having the name MOSS attached to it. This change is required to have a clear difference between the brand name Office and SharePoint. This change will help us avoid ambiguity between MS Office Applications and MS SharePoint Applications. MS Office is often referred to as Office client applications. SharePoint 2010 will be having many new features than the previous version of SharePoint 2007, some of the user advantages will be as listed below:

· Users will be able to create, edit and collaborate on Office documents through a browser using Office Web Applications.

· It would help the IT Professionals in choosing either to deploy or manage on-premises or hosted as a service.

· This version of SharePoint would include Open API’s for the developers for industry standards

· This version of SharePoint would also provide developer tool support with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

· IT professionals will be benefiting from a new delivery and new licensing models as well as from improved management options.

· These products will be able to provide a familiar interface across PCs, mobile phones and browsers to make it easier for them to create, communicate and collaborate from any location.

· This will also help the developers to reduce their development cycles and improve application interoperability.

· The server software will be 64 bit only.

· In this version SharePoint Lists will be having SQL table like behavior.

· This version will be having Silverlight webparts instead of Asp.Net Webparts.

· Backup/Restore/Rollback and Snapshot backups with virtual load balancing.

· InfoPath style web-based editor will be included in the new version of SharePoint.

· Users will be able to customize the master page in a better way.

· Groove and SharePoint will be fully integrated.

· New enhancements in the Excel Services.

· The User interface will be more customizable using DIVs rather than using table-driver design.

· A web standards complaint user interface.