I;ve seen much more than several buyers and press/bloggers wondering about how and when Microsoft programs to roll out a few of the new SharePoint 2010 capabilities to customers of its hosted SharePoint On the net support.,
Microsoft Office Home And Business 2010
When Microsoft was creating SharePoint 2010, officials told me that the group was taking a new tack: The SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Internet teams had been operating together about the newest release (rather than the software staff passing the baton to the Via the internet team only immediately after the release was finished). The objective was to reduce the gap between Microsoft;s rollout with the software program as well as the service.
So how much did Microsoft really handle to reduce that gap with all the 2010 release?
At the Office 2010/SharePoint 2010 launch in New york Metropolis on Could 12, Microsoft execs stated to anticipate the provider to release SharePoint Via the internet “for our largest customers” updated with 2010 functionality “later this year.” (Translation: SharePoint Online Dedicated customers get the update first.) Some time immediately after that, SharePoint Internet Standard users will get a refresh with 2010 functionality. (SharePoint On the internet Standard is the SKU typically purchased by SMBs and others who don;t mind multitenant/shared infrastructure.) Microsoft is around the same schedule for getting Exchange Server 2010 functionality into Exchange On the web,
Windows 7 Product Key, officials added.
An internal Microsoft slide I ran on my blog a couple of months ago showed Microsoft;s original plan (as of November 2009) was to get SharePoint 2010 functionality into the Business Productivity Via the internet Suite (BPOS) Dedicated release in the spring (March) of 2010 and to BPOS Standard users before the end of calendar 2010. I;m thinking that those dates have probably slipped,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, given that SharePoint On-line is one of the pieces with the BPOS offering, and SharePoint On the web Dedicated isn;t getting 2010 functionality until later this year. Microsoft Senior Vice President Kurt Delbene did say that a beta with the 2010 feature refresh would make it to SharePoint On-line Standard consumers before the end of this calendar year, but wouldn;t provide a year as to when the final version would be released.
Here are a few more slides from November that break out a lot more in a additional granular way which SharePoint 2010 features are likely to make it into the SharePoint On the web release. (Not all of them ever will; some are on-premises software features only, by design.) Given these slides are from a Microsoft presentation from some months ago, these options still could change.
Here;s the SharePoint Over the internet Dedicated rollout feature slide:
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And here;s the SharePoint On-line Standard rollout feature slide:
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Office Internet Apps — the Web-ified versions of Word,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — are also being delivered in phases, also.
Microsoft is making the final version of Office Web Apps available to shoppers who want to use them for free through SkyDrive and Hotmail starting June 15. Microsoft execs stated yesterday that it may take a while for access to Office Internet Apps to populate across the Microsoft servers, but June 15 is the begin with the delivery there. (Note: OneNote Web App is not part of the initial rollout, but seems to be coming before the end of this year, according to Microsoft documentation.)
June 15 also is the date when Workplace 2010 goes on sale at retail, Microsoft execs confirmed yesterday and seems also to be the date when Microsoft is going to roll out the final version of at least a number of its Windows Live Wave 4 providers (though not its Essentials suite), based on what Microsoft officials mentioned yesterday.
If you want to use Workplace Web Apps on-premises — hosted inside your own internet business — they are available to SharePoint 2010 buyers now. But if you want to use Workplace Net Apps hosted by Microsoft (the same way SharePoint On the internet is hosted by Microsoft), you;ll have to wait until the end of this year to do that.
One additional thing (related to this week;s Office 2010/SharePoint 2010 start): Microsoft made available on the Windows Phone Marketplace for download the final Workplace Mobile 2010 bits. The newest version works with Windows Mobile 6.5 phones only and is free for existing Workplace Mobile buyers. Microsoft officials declined again this week to provide any timetable as to when a version of Workplace Mobile 2010 will be available for Windows Phone 7 consumers.
See also:
Office 2010: ScreenshotsForrester: Who;s ready for Office 2010?Microsoft: Workplace 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 go better togetherOutlook Web App in screenshots: Google doesn;t have a chance
Office 2010: Microsoft to charge PC makers less for preloading moreMicrosoft Workplace 2010 enterprise pricing: You win some,
Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key, you lose some
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