Microsoft SharePoint 15 May be Released in 2012
Mary Jo Foley posted an article on ZDNet yesterday in which she mentioned that Microsoft is planning to release to manufacturing (RTM) its Office 15 products, Office servers which will include SharePoint Server 15, and Office 365 bundle hopefully in 2012. If the next version of Microsoft Office is released in 2012 then it is likely to be called “Office 2012” but if the product slips into next year then it may be called “Office 2013.”
In her blog post Mary Jo Foley said that she was able to confirm that the following features will be included in SharePoint 15:
“1. SharePoint 15 will include a new SharePoint Apps Marketplace
2. SharePoint Apps will support multi-tenant installations so that hosting providers can make available the same set of applications to multiple customers
3. SharePoint 15 gets a new Education module/option making the product more of a head-to-head competitor with Moodle, which is an open-source course-management system“
In addition, she indicated that:
“SharePoint 15 and Exchange Server 15 are both also getting additional built-in information-rights-management (IRM) document-protection functionality as part of the base products.”
That is going to be awesome. I can’t wait for the next version of SharePoint.
