Sharepoint Foundation 2010

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By , December 9, 2009 2:16 am

Although it may seem like most of Microsoft’s resources are tied up in the Windows 7 launch, you can rest assured knowing that MS developers have been hard at work on new versions of their enterprise products, including  SharePoint.  I created a Windows 2008R2 virtual machine with SharePoint Foundation 2010 (the lightweight version of SharePoint formerly known Windows SharePoint Services) to take advantage of all that extra RAM and CPU on my new Windows 7 desktop. After testing the beta, I can safely sum up the next iteration of this web-based content management and collaboration software in just one word: ribbon.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 Ribbon

The tab-based toolbar that first appeared in Microsoft Office 2007 has now been tied in (pun intended) to SharePoint, most likely to further associate it with the Microsoft Office branding. It is by far the most obvious change in SharePoint and probably one of the best. It’s also a very crucial part of the new in-browser WYSIWYG editor for editing pages. Yes, it works in Firefox! Overall, the SharePoint 2010 interface is a huge improvement. Here are a few screen shots:

I’m investigating some of the new Visual Studio 2010 features for developing SharePoint 2010 content. I’ll have another post about that in the near future.

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