An article at Network World, talking about the new collaboration tools with the upcoming release of 2007 Microsoft Office, had this to say:
“Microsoft is emphasizing collaboration again,” say Chris LeTocq, principal analyst with Guernsey Research. LeTocq says that while Groove plays a fundamental role in collaboration, SharePoint Services, a feature of the core operating system for setting up ad-hoc team sharing sites on the network, and SharePoint Server also are key pieces of software.
“SharePoint is the opportunity in Office to create a collaboration environment for groups of users. To some extent it is an unsung hero in Office 2007,” says LeTocq. He says SharePoint presents an attractive collaboration option for end-users as compared to today’s cumbersome e-mail threads. "
The cool thing about the new SharePoint will be the front end. You'll be able to modify your SharePoint site using FrontPage, albeit under a different name. I'm not sure if it's been announced yet, so I'll leave it at that for now.
Personally, I'm very pleased about this, because I can tell you from experience that working with SharePoint has been a complicated process in the past. I haven't tried out SharePoint 2007 yet, but the fact that I can use FrontPage with it is a huge plus in my book.
You can already use FrontPage 2003 with Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and also with SPS 2003 (although this is not always a good idea ...)
Posted by: Joris | February 18, 2006 12:05 AM | Permalink to Comment