Good info…
SharePoint 14 is the next version of Microsoft SharePoint and during the PDC 2008 was revealed about SharePoint 14
SharePoint 14 will, most certainly, be released at the same time as Office 14 which most probably will be released when Windows 7 around 2010 mid. The guess is that this point in time is in about a year
Microsoft said that it plans to formally integrate enterprise search technology from its $1.2 billion acquisition of Fast Search and Transfer a year ago into its popular SharePoint content management platform.
By comparison, the existing search features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server have trouble handling repositories with more than 50 million documents, Ovum analyst Madan Sheina wrote last month.
The new FAST Search for SharePoint will also bring “more advanced linguistic capabilities” and “more powerful processing” of both structured and unstructured content, Microsoft’s Andersen said.
Search Server will become Microsoft’s mid-tier, paid enterprise search software, while Search Server Express remains its low-end, free version.
Probable changes you may see
Here are the stuff that I think will most probably be in SharePoint 14, not listed in any special order:
• A web standards compliant user interface – The web user interface will support the web standards
• Non-table driven interface – The user interface is not solely based on a table-driven design, but rather a more simple approach using DIVs, which makes it more customizable
• AJAX based interface – this is one thing that I’m rather confident about being updated
• .NET 4 based – SharePoint will use the .NET Framework 4. This will also give support for the new WF stuff.
• No changes to the WebPart classes – I have not seen any changes in the WebPart classes in the .NET 4 beta framework. Making changes to these parts would break current existing SharePoint applications.
• Developer tools – the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint will go to version 2 and finally be useful
• An STSADM GUI – a more user friendly way to work with SharePoint administration. STSADM will still be there for sure, but a user interface (web based or not) that makes it more easy to manage features will probably be there.
• Licensing – I would not be surprised if we get a new SharePoint edition, such as a SharePoint Publishing Edition, that has a better price level if you just want to use the publishing features of MOSS.
• Excel Services – MOSS 2007 contained the first version of Excel Services and version 2 will most probably have some really nice enhancements that make Excel Services even more powerful.
• API changes – the API’s will not change so much that it breaks current applications but rather have some fixes that makes it even better and easier to program against. See my previous post on this.
• Social Networking and Enterprise 2.0 – the social networking pieces will be taken to another level. What happened to Townsquare?
• Groove – Groove and SharePoint will now be fully integrated
• 64-bit only – SharePoint will only be available on 64-bit platforms
• Other stuff
• Option to customize the application.master in a better way
• Tight integration with the new Office Live products
• FAST Search features out of the box
• Document standard support: ODF, OOXML, PDF, all ISO approved document formats
• Silverlight everywhere!
• Claims based authentication. Easy configuration to use the Geneva Server and Framework for authentication
• Based on the MVC framework – if this was the case then no one would be happier than me!
• Installation possible on workstation OS (Vista and Windows 7)
What’s your take?stay tuneed………
