Microsoft Announces Sharepoint 2010 Feature Set

Posted by Jonathan Clarke - 19 October 2009

Microsoft today unveiled what is to be included in Sharepoint 2010. A public beta is expected to be available in November.

Highlights from Microsoft's press release:

• A new ribbon user interface that makes end users more productive and customization of SharePoint sites easy
• Deep Office integration through social tagging, backstage integration and document life-cycle management
• Built-in support for rich media such as video, audio and Silverlight, making it easy to build dynamic Web sites
• New Web content management features with built-in accessibility through Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, multilingual support and one-click page layout, enabling anyone to access SharePoint Server sites
• New SharePoint tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, giving developers a premier experience with the tools they know and trust
• Business Connectivity Services, which allow developers to connect capabilities to line-of-business data or Web services in SharePoint Server and the Office client
• Rich APIs and support for Silverlight, representational state transfer (REST) and Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), to help developers rapidly build applications on the SharePoint platform
• Enterprise features in SharePoint Online 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 

 

Full Microsoft press release can be found here.