Thomas Rizzo SharePoint KeyNote at SharePoint Connections
This morning was the official Keynote for the SharePoint part of DevConnections. Thomas Rizzo (who also gave last year's Keynote) gave us some hints into the the Office 14 release of SharePoint, including the ability to collaborate on Office documents simultaneously. The emphasis towards instant gratification from a collaboration perspective is exciting. He also mentioned some of the new downloads available from CodePlex and the community kits.
There was a lot of emphasis on the Office Online movement, allowing organizations to utilize shared hosting environments for Microsoft Server technologies. You won't get access to all the administrative functions, but it's a reasonably inexpensive way to get started with SharePoint, Exchange, OCS, and an ever-growing field of Microsoft Server technologies.
Another interesting point was the Content Management Interoperability Services designed to create a standard or API for connections between Enterprise Content Management systems. This will make it much easier to integrate these platforms and manage the content between them.
More to come...
-Ryan