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I;ve noticed a lot more than a few clients and press/bloggers wondering about how and when Microsoft plans to roll out a few of the new SharePoint 2010 capabilities to customers of its hosted SharePoint On the web company.
When Microsoft was creating SharePoint 2010, officials advised me the team was taking a brand new tack: The SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Internet teams were operating with each other around the latest release (rather than the software crew passing the baton towards the Over the internet team only immediately after the release was finished). The goal was to reduce the gap among Microsoft;s rollout of the software program and the support.
So just how much did Microsoft really handle to minimize that gap together with the 2010 release?
At the Office 2010/SharePoint 2010 launch in New york Metropolis on Could 12, Microsoft execs mentioned to anticipate the corporation to release SharePoint On the net “for our largest customers” updated with 2010 functionality “later this year.” (Translation: SharePoint On the web Dedicated clients get the update first.) Some time following that,key office 2007, SharePoint On the web Standard users will get a refresh with 2010 functionality. (SharePoint Online Standard is the SKU typically purchased by SMBs and others who don;t mind multitenant/shared infrastructure.) Microsoft is on the same schedule for getting Exchange Server 2010 functionality into Exchange On line, 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 Enterprise 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, given that SharePoint Online is one of the pieces of the BPOS offering,Buy Windows 7 Home Premium, 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 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 couple of more slides from November that break out more in a additional granular way which SharePoint 2010 features are likely to make it into the SharePoint On the net release. (Not all of them ever will; some are on-premises software program features only,Office 2010 Sale, by design.) Given these slides are from a Microsoft presentation from a number of months ago, these plans still could change.
Here;s the SharePoint On-line Dedicated rollout feature slide:
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And here;s the SharePoint On line Standard rollout feature slide:
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Office Net Apps — the Web-ified versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — are also being delivered in phases, as well.
Microsoft is making the final version of Office Internet Apps available to consumers who want to use them for free via SkyDrive and Hotmail starting June 15. Microsoft execs stated yesterday that it could possibly take a while for access to Workplace Web Apps to populate across the Microsoft servers, but June 15 is the begin with the delivery there. (Note: OneNote Net App is not part with the initial rollout,Microsoft Office Standard 2010 Key, but seems to be coming before the end of this year, according to Microsoft documentation.)
June 15 also is the date when Office 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 some 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 Net Apps on-premises — hosted inside your own small business — they are available to SharePoint 2010 buyers now. But if you want to use Office Web Apps hosted by Microsoft (the same way SharePoint Over the internet is hosted by Microsoft), you;ll have to wait until the end of this year to do that.
One extra 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 most recent version works with Windows Mobile 6.5 phones only and is free for existing Workplace Mobile clients. Microsoft officials declined again this week to provide any timetable as to when a version of Office Mobile 2010 will be available for Windows Phone 7 buyers.
See also:
Workplace 2010: ScreenshotsForrester: Who;s ready for Workplace 2010?Microsoft: Office 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 go better togetherOutlook Internet 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,Windows Seven, you lose some