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Beta of SharePoint Server 2010 coming soon

Beginning today a new public beta of the Microsoft Exchange 2010 is available for download. This new wave of Microsoft releases is the just beginning and will include a forthcoming version of SharePoint Server 2010. Final versions of several Microsoft products will be available in stages from the second half of 2009 through the first quarter of 2010, says a Microsoft press release.

The news of the release has bloggers and journalists doing what they do best: Analyzing and speculating. CMS Wire boils it down saying, the new SharePoint is being built with the intention of providing a consistent user experience across the entire Microsoft suite, creating and editing documents easily and being able to collaborate from anywhere. CMS Wire says, "SharePoint 2010 should be available for technical preview sometime in the third quarter, with an expected public release in the first half of 2010--hence the name."

We have written about SharePoint often in FierceContentManagement--particularly about where the product fits among other CMS products. This latest version may be what SharePoint needs to define itself.

For more:
- see the press release

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Huh? The title says "Beta of SharePoint Server 2010 released", then the article says "Beginning today a new public beta of the Microsoft Exchange 2010 is available".

Which is it? SharePoint or Exchange?

You're right; it's confusing and I apologize. The news is that Sharepoint Server will be available later this year as part of a new unified communications family. Exchange is the first piece in the unified communications family that is publicly available. Other pieces including SharePoint will follow later this year. I hope this clarifies it for you.

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