The Kimono Is Open, The Veil Is Lifted, The Gags Are Removed.....

I just got out of Steven Sinofsky’s keynote session on Office “12” here at the PDC, and that means one thing.  Actually, multiple, things, but the big thing is that I can stop being (as much of) a jerk about not saying anything about what we’re doing next.  Let the disclosure begin!!!

Yesterday morning, Bill Gates and Chris Caposella revealed the new Office “12” client UI.  It’s a client thing, so I’m not going to talk about that for now.  This morning, Steven showed off a bunch ‘o’ stuff, so I’ll start off in this post by just listing ‘em.

• RSS.  Everything about sites, lists, libraries, etc., can be syndicated via RSS automatically. 
• Blogs and Wikis.  Templates and features in the box.
• Content Types.  These aren’t just like SPS 2001’s document profiles.  They define sets of metadata, but they also contain view information.  And associated workflows.  And events bound to them (synchronous or asynchronous).  And you can have more than one in the same list/library.
• Workflow.  Windows Workflow Foundation is embedded in WSS.  It’s used everywhere.
• Recycle Bin.  We did it.  It’s scoped to a site and captures deleted documents, items, etc.  It has a user restore and an administrative restore.
• Per-item security.  Even on list items
• FrontPage has evolved into a feature set that makes it truly a SharePoint site designer.  (Ghosting’s still around, but it won’t be a problem anymore.  I’ll explain why in an upcoming post.
• Forms services in Office “12” servers.  That’s right — design a form in the InfoPath rich client, publish it as a SharePoint site, and it can be either viewed/filled out in the full smart client or in a browser as HTML. 
• Search.  Better APIs.  Better results.  Alternate search suggestions (misspelled words,etc.).  A highly customizable default Web-based UI.
• Office “12” servers will also contain a Business Data Catalog, a facility that registers LOB application data and Web services.  Once that’s happened, BDC-aware Web Parts can pull data from them, we can index them, and a lot more.  There’s a session on this tomorrow.
• Office “12” servers will also be able to take a spreadsheet published to a SharePoint site and reneer it as an HTML application.
• Mobile views of SharePoint lists.  That’s right, a way to render a list on a mobile device.
• Lists now have a Business Data type that will use the aforemntioned Business Data Catalog
• Access will be able to treat SharePoint site data as fulll-blown data sources.

Mike Ammerlaan’s talk on how WSS v3 interoperates with ASP.NET 2.0 is starting.  More later.

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
  Any idea if WSS V3/SPS will support dynamic multilingual sites?
• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
  Right now sharepoint is used mostly for intranet sites, how will mobile devices access those pages? Will the site have to be externally available or will you do it another way?
  Whatever the solution is, where are the mobile sharepoint demos! :)
• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
  Finally we can talk about this stuff!!!!  I have been dying to talk to people about what is coming...
• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
  Mike Fitzmaurice has all the announcements on the next version of SharePoint on his blog. Interestingly...
• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
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• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
  [Via Mike Fitzmaurice]
  
  RSS.  Everything about sites, lists, libraries, etc., can be syndicated...
• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
  Mike Fitz hat ins seinem Weblog über seinen Vortrag auf der PDC 2005 berichtet und die wesentlichen Neuerungen für SharePoint V3 vorgestellt:
• Anonymous
  September 14, 2005
  How much of this is WSS, how much is SPS?
• Anonymous
  September 15, 2005
  are there any changes or additions to the SharePoint (or WSS) web services?
  
  for those that develop products that interact with our customers' existing SP/WSS servers, they dont always allow us to add or change anything on their production server. using web services allows our app to interact with SP without making them nervous about breaking their production servers.
• Anonymous
  September 15, 2005
  Looks great !! Just saw the Channel9 video !
  I still have one question :
  Will vNext be cross-browser ?
  
• Anonymous
  October 21, 2005
  Hope you enjoy this post.
  
  http://cliffreeves.typepad.com/dyermaker/2005/10/it_20_we_are_ab.html
  
  Better late than never, I guess :-)
• Anonymous
  March 21, 2006
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• Anonymous
  January 21, 2009
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