SharePoint – thoughts on sharepoint.microsoft.com

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com had a face lift.  I decided to go have a quick look and make some comments.

Nice bits

• The site looks cleaner
• It is running on SharePoint
• Sign-in is tied with Windows Live (passport)

Horrible bits

• View Source was horrifying – I had hoped it may be running on SharePoint 2010 – but it looks like it’s still MOSS 2007
  • Big viewstate
  • Big initialize data for SilverLight
  • These are all things I’d hope to see disappear when we finally see SharePoint 2010…  I guess I’ll have to keep waiting.

Awesome

• Great HTML comment in the footer of the page:

<!---

Developed by Celina Moser Baginski

For questions and/or comments, please email me at

celina_baginski@consejoinc.com

--->

• Given that this is on every page – I assume it’s on the master
• I can’t fine Celina Moser Baginski when I went to browse around http://www.consejoinc.com/ though.  Makes me wonder – if you don’t talk about your employees on your company’s own site, why would you let them put their email addresses directly into the master page of your client’s site?

Comments

[Orlando Wiley]

If only more than 45 people could hear about this.