We have a feeling the next version might be called Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010, primarily because of the image on the right :). Regardless of the name of SharePoint vNext, what's more important to customers, consultants and users is what features are going to be added, updated and removed. After viewing many blog posts, here is a synposis of the features SharePoint 14 might have:
- SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP but better integration and bigger
- The server software will be announced as 64 bit only
- Silverlight Media web parts
- Better accessibility and 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
What features do you think will be part of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010? Respond by commenting below.
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