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I;ve observed far more than a number of buyers and press/bloggers wondering about how and when Microsoft programs to roll out a number of the new SharePoint 2010 capabilities to buyers of its hosted SharePoint On the net support.
When Microsoft was developing SharePoint 2010, officials informed me that the group was taking a new tack: The SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint On the net teams had been functioning collectively about the latest release (as an alternative to the software program staff passing the baton towards the Via the internet team only after the release was completed). The objective was to minimize the gap between Microsoft;s rollout with the software and also the service.
So just how much did Microsoft actually manage to minimize that gap together with the 2010 release?
At the Office 2010/SharePoint 2010 launch in Ny Metropolis on Might possibly 12, Microsoft execs stated to anticipate the organization to release SharePoint On-line “for our largest customers” updated with 2010 functionality “later this year.” (Translation: SharePoint Online Dedicated clients get the update first.) Some time following that, SharePoint Over the internet Standard users will get a refresh with 2010 functionality. (SharePoint On the web Standard is the SKU typically purchased by SMBs and others who don;t mind multitenant/shared infrastructure.) Microsoft is about the same schedule for getting Exchange Server 2010 functionality into Exchange On the net, officials added.
An internal Microsoft slide I ran on my blog a number of months ago showed Microsoft;s original plan (as of November 2009) was to get SharePoint 2010 functionality into the Home business Productivity On line 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 Internet is one of the pieces with the BPOS offering,Office Professional Plus, and SharePoint On line 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 On the internet Standard consumers before the end of this calendar year,Office 2010 Home And Business Key, 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 much more granular way which SharePoint 2010 features are likely to make it into the SharePoint Online 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 several 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 the internet Standard rollout feature slide:
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Office Web Apps — the Web-ified versions of Word, Excel,Office 2010, PowerPoint and OneNote — are also being delivered in phases, as well.
Microsoft is making the final version of Office Web Apps available to customers who want to use them for free through SkyDrive and Hotmail starting June 15. Microsoft execs said yesterday that it might take a while for access to Workplace Internet Apps to populate across the Microsoft servers, but June 15 is the commence 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 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),Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007, based on what Microsoft officials said yesterday.
If you want to use Workplace Internet Apps on-premises — hosted inside your own home 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 web is hosted by Microsoft), you;ll have to wait until the end of this year to do that.
One much more thing (related to this week;s Office 2010/SharePoint 2010 start): Microsoft made available about the Windows Phone Marketplace for download the final Office Mobile 2010 bits. The latest version works with Windows Mobile 6.5 phones only and is free for existing Office Mobile consumers. 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 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,Windows 7 Ultimate Product Key, you lose some