Microsoft's vision with SharePoint 2010 and beyond

During Bamler's keynote, he talked about how Microsoft sees the market now and in the future. More and more we will see that information can be shared between more and more kinds of devices like regular PC's, phones, TVs, ... . Microsoft wants it to be even more natural to bring along with you some kind of digital device which you can use in all kinds of different situations for gathering and sharing data. Of course cloud computing will also play a big role in this story. In the center of it all, Microsoft places its SharePoint technology.

In SharePoint 2010, SharePoint workspace will be introduced. This successor to the Groove technology, will allow users to take their SharePoint data offline, continue their work and synchronize when an Internet connection is available.

Microsoft will keep improving the extendibility and programmability of the platform so SharePoint can become a solution for a broad range of problems. Where in the past companies had to buy all kinds of different modules and solutions for search, BI, collaboration, ... SharePoint tries to cover all of these. This allows companies to respond to their business needs fast. As a consequence, Microsoft introduces the well know Office ribbon interface, improved cross browser compatibility and phone compatibility.