First day at conference

There were not many news during todays sessions and key notes, including Steve Balmer. To sumarize the message I would say cloud computing and collaboration is the main theme of day one.

Sharepoint online will be one of the main focus areas from microsoft, and you will be able to run a whole or partial sharepoint enviroment seamlesly. In other words, you can run your critical LOB systems in house and other not so central parts of you sharepoint farm within the cloud.

The other focus area is collaboration including Office Web applications - Share and edit office documents online without installed clients, Gemini (Now officially called PowerPivot) - 100 000 000+ rows for self analytics in excel and social networks - facebook-like functionality built-in in sharepoint.

Sharepoint 2010 and Office 2010 public beta will be released in november 2009 and first version 1:st halv 2010.

Now we are off to meet with the other swedish attendees.