Today, a good portion of the community joins us in Boston, where the turnout at SPTechCon has been phenomenal, and the energy is amped up! Tom Rizzo kicked off the morning with a keynote talk, during which he said (only half-kiddingly) that Microsoft’s goal with SharePoint is global domination – they want everyone using it! He didn’t break any new ground vis a vis the SharePoint 2010 release, but did say it would be for 64-bit only, which will require Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 or 2008 for 64-bit. It also will only support Internet Explorer 7 and above for XHTML support, though he did say SharePoint developers can customize their applications to support IE 6. Rizzo also spoke a bit about Visual Studio 2010, which will have new graphical features for packaging and for creating Web parts. The timeline for SharePoint 2010 remains that there will be a public beta released in the second half of this year, followed by the actual rollout the first half of 2010. Rizzo pointed to a new social computing Web site Microsoft has introduced for SharePoint, and told users to avail themselves of a “Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint” site. And, BZ Media, producers of SPTechCon, announced that the next conference will be Feb. 10-12 in Burlingame, Calif.
-- David
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