Yesterday, they demonstrated at the conference the existing array of the new product enhancements in the new SharePoint and highlighted significant investments in social, cloud and mobile capabilities. The enhancements include the new Metro user experience where you can share documents inside or outside the organization with the single click, drag and drop content into document libraries, edit lists inline and create new sites easily.
Other enhancements are as follows:
- With the use of Skydrive Pro, you can store and sync documents across all the devices in the organization.
- For task management, you can organize your work with task lists and project timelines as well as to consolidate task management across SharePoint, Outlook and Project.
- You can customize and narrow your search for more relevant results and discover related people and documents with recommendations with the newly improved FAST Search.
- Using eDiscovery across SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and file shares, you can make the dynamic websites with cross-site publishing and enhanced Web content management. Improve scalability and performance with a new cloud architecture.
In addition, SharePoint 15 also introduces a new cloud app model for more than 700k developers building on it. This new cloud app model and a new Office store make it easier for developers to build, buy and deploy and manage applications using existing Web development skills. This can be done with the use of the new Visual Studio in which they can work with Napa tools for online development of Office 365 apps, include templates and designers to facilitate app development and support the LightSwitch HTML client for easy creation of data-centric business apps in SharePoint 15.
The last thing may include SharePoint mobile for Windows 8, Windows Phone, IOS and Android devices. All of these apps will work with both SharePoint 15 and Online.
