Microsoft Announces Public Beta of SharePoint 2010

Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) announced the public beta of SharePoint Server 2010. New features include a ribbon user interface for customization of SharePoint sites, enhanced Office integration via social tagging and document life-cycle management, web content management capabilities with multilingual support and one-click page layout, SharePoint tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and new APIs and support for Silverlight, representational state transfer (REST), and language-integrated query (LINQ) for application development.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is part of the next wave of Microsoft Office-related products, which includes Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and Microsoft Visio 2010. These are designed to give people the best productivity experience across PCs, cell phones, and browsers.
The public betas of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010, and Visio 2010 will become available in November 2009; more information is available at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9689707.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 will be available in the first half of 2010. More information about Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 can be found at www.microsoft.com/sharepoint.
Source: Microsoft Corp.