SharePoint Connections 2007
So here I am in Vegas - and for this Englishman it's a first time. I am here with some of the other Syrinx SharePoint team for SharePoint Dev Connections. One thing we immediately noticed was that each track had it's own registration and colored bags - this was great - helped us spot the SharePoint people - or as we called them "Red Baggers". What shocked us was the number of red baggers, it was clear that SharePoint has come of age.
This morning Tom Rizzo of Microsoft confirmed our suspicion , Microsoft does indeed have a success on it's hands. SharePoint 2007 is the fastest growing Microsoft Server Product, 85 million users worldwide. Tom also confirmed that the next version of SharePoint will to be 64 bit only, but it was uncertain if a 32 bit development version would be made available, a la Exchange 2007. I don't see this as a huge issue since most servers are now 64bit and a new version of SharePoint is some time off. But what of new tools? for those of you doing SharePoint development, you are very much aware of the lack of full tool support and Visual Studio support, well I guess we will need to wait a little longer.
-- Ian