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I;ve noticed far more than a couple of customers and press/bloggers questioning about how and when Microsoft strategies to roll out some of the new SharePoint 2010 capabilities to consumers of its hosted SharePoint Online service.
When Microsoft was developing SharePoint 2010, officials informed me that the crew was taking a brand new tack: The SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online teams had been operating together about the latest release (rather than the software crew passing the baton to the Via the internet staff only soon after the release was finished). The objective was to minimize the gap in between Microsoft;s rollout of the software plus the support.
So how much did Microsoft truly handle to reduce that gap with the 2010 release?
At the Office 2010/SharePoint 2010 start in Ny City on May well 12, Microsoft execs stated to anticipate the organization to release SharePoint On the web “for our largest customers” updated with 2010 functionality “later this year.” (Translation: SharePoint On the net Dedicated buyers get the update first.) Some time soon after that, SharePoint On-line Standard users will get a refresh with 2010 functionality. (SharePoint On the net 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 internet, officials added.
An internal Microsoft slide I ran on my blog some months ago showed Microsoft;s original plan (as of November 2009) was to get SharePoint 2010 functionality into the Company Productivity On the web 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,Thomas Sabo Sale Charms, given that SharePoint On the web is one with the pieces with the BPOS offering,Office Home And Business Product Key, and SharePoint Via the internet Dedicated isn;t getting 2010 functionality until later this year. Microsoft Senior Vice President Kurt Delbene did say that a beta of the 2010 feature refresh would make it to SharePoint Via the internet Standard customers 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 much more in a far more granular way which SharePoint 2010 features are likely to make it into the SharePoint On-line 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 a number of 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 Internet Standard rollout feature slide:
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Office Web Apps — the Web-ified versions of Word,Windows 7 Home Premium Key, Excel,Buy Windows 7 Home Premium, PowerPoint and OneNote — are also being delivered in phases, at the same time.
Microsoft is making the final version of Office Internet Apps available to buyers who want to use them for free via SkyDrive and Hotmail starting June 15. Microsoft execs mentioned 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 Internet 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,Office Standard 2007 Key, Microsoft execs confirmed yesterday and seems also to be the date when Microsoft is going to roll out the final version of at least some of its Windows Live Wave 4 services (though not its Essentials suite), based on what Microsoft officials mentioned yesterday.
If you want to use Office Net Apps on-premises — hosted inside your own organization — they are available to SharePoint 2010 clients now. But if you want to use Workplace Internet Apps hosted by Microsoft (the same way SharePoint On the net 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 Workplace 2010/SharePoint 2010 start): Microsoft made available about the Windows Phone Marketplace for download the final Office Mobile 2010 bits. The most recent version works with Windows Mobile 6.5 phones only and is free for existing Office 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 Workplace 2010?Microsoft: Workplace 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 go better togetherOutlook Web App in screenshots: Google doesn;t have a chanceOffice 2010: Microsoft to charge PC makers less for preloading moreMicrosoft Office 2010 enterprise pricing: You win some, you lose some