Things have been pretty hectic at the SharePoint Conference 2009 with all the new changes and enchancements that are coming. It's been an amazing couple of days meeting so many of those part of the SharePoint Community.
From
Steve Balmer's keynote we learned that the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta will be available in November 2009.
If you aren't sure of the list of features, a complete list will be provided but here's a snippet from the
press release:
- A new ribbon user interface that makes end users more productive and customization of SharePoint sites easy
- 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
- Business Connectivity Services, which allow developers to connect capabilities to line-of-business data or Web services in SharePoint Server and the Office client
- The addition of two new SharePoint SKUs for Internet-facing sites, including an on-premises and hosted offer
- and more
Look forward to more info as we keep up the overload of information. In the mean time, follow us on twitter!