Microsoft has begin to move and has blasted off with the SharePoint 2010 sneak peek website – I can’t help but think the timing was strategic – right after the NZ SharePoint conference, before the US SharePoint conference coming up in October.  If this had go up one week before the NZ SharePoint conference – there would have been many speakers ambushed with questions they might not know how to answer.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/

Anyway, the areas I’ll be paying extreme close attention to are:

Overview:

• Love the ribbon!
• Love the cross browser support!
• Love the AJAX – though the video looks like there were still full screen refreshes
• Curious about Visio services
• Curious about Business Connectivity Services
• Like the SharePoint designer – wish they allow more admin control to turn off features so that it can be more accepted in the enterprise.

Admin:

• Like new central admin
• Love SharePoint best practice analyzer!
• Love usage reporting and logging!
• Love the unattached content database recovery!

Developer:

• Curious about VS.NET 2010 integration – I hope it’s heaps better than VSeWSS 1.3
• Love LINQ for SharePoint!
• Curious about Developer Dashboard
• Love client object model!

Anyway, lots of love for now – no hate yet.