This is just a small roundup of the information provided by our friend steve:
- Public beta of workspace, office and SharePoint 2010 will be available in november. No date specified
- SharePoint 2010 will ship in Q1 or Q2 of 2010
- SharePoint 2010 runs on vista and windows 7 for developers
- visual interface for creating webparts
- greatly simplified deployment from VS2010
- pump log info into a database into a file
- SharePoint Online is SharePoint in the cloud
- 2 way communication with the new BDC
- SMS service can be setup for alerts, invites and notifications
- sp2010 sites will be WCAG compliant and xhtml
- end users can copy content from word to SP2010 without losing markup
- built-in broken link checker and spell checker for end users
- WSS is now called SharePoint Foundation 2010
- a Lot of new licensing options
- reporting services are now built-in
- SP2010 evaluation guide: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=110318ec-0238-4811-8fc7-ec4399d3c100
- a Lot of articles @ MSDN available: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd441784.aspx
- full support for IE 7,8 and firefox 3.x: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/bas/archive/2009/10/19/sp2010-browser-compatibility-overview.aspx. Even safari 3.x is supported
- communities rock! social networking better implemented: LinkedIn/Facebook like "what am I doing" is just a small example!
- Central options to manage tagging, metadata. Even metadata navigation!
- Taxonomy management will be way better
- Did I already that the NDA has officially been lifted? ;)
UPDATE:
- Out of the box item and document rating
- In-browser viewing of all Office-content types
- Co-editing spreadsheets. Hmm. Just like Google Wave. Buh-bye Google Wave. (tweet from sympmarc)
- New poster from MSFT: Design Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5a3ca177-fb9a-4901-9797-0c384277db7c
- Controlling large list activities: (from documentation)
- default no of items returned for a user query is 5000
- warning for site admins that they are close to a threshold limit (default 3000)
- the amount of query results for a site admin is 20.000.
- maximum number of unique scopes in a list: default is 5000
- default of max 6 lookup columns in a list
More to follow later on!