7.2. The New Generation
This section describes the overall picture of MS Office Server 2007 products. The objective here is to show you what new programs come with the latest generation of Microsoft Office products and to give you a good idea of the new features in SharePoint. Below is a list of the new or updated products that were officially released by early 2007:
MS Windows SharePoint Service 2007
MS Office SharePoint Server 2007
MS Word 2007
MS Excel 2007
MS PowerPoint 2007
MS Access 2007
MS Outlook 2007
MS Publisher 2007
MS InfoPath 2007
MS OneNote 2007
MS Project Server 2007
MS Office Project Portfolio Server 2007
MS SharePoint Designer 2007
MS Expression Web Designer 2007
MS Office Groove 2007
MS Visio 2007
MS Office Forms Server 2007
There were also several interesting products that were released at the end of 2005 that are totally compatible with the 2007 product line, such as MS SQL Server 2005, MS Dynamics CRM 3.0, MS Communicator, and MS Business Scorecard Manager. As you can see from this list, Microsoft has been very busy the last few years. Their challenge is not only to develop a new version but also to make it integrate with other products and especially SharePoint 2007. So, now it's just up to us to learn all these products. But then again, how hard can it be, right?
One of Microsoft's top priorities for this new version of SharePoint is performance. The goal is to offer even better performance than with SharePoint 2003, and all initial tests indicate that this is the case. ...
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