At Web Media 360 we are constantly primed for any SharePoint development news, and therefore quickly homed in on an official comment recently issued by Microsoft regarding the next SharePoint upgrade.
Admittedly, the statement did not reveal any details on the impending improvements to SharePoint. It did, however, when looked at in conjunction with what we also know about other impending Microsoft activity, hint at when we might see the new SharePoint version being released.
First things first: the statement itself.
This was issued by the corporate vice president of the Microsoft Office Division, PJ Hough, and confirmed that the new version of SharePoint would be released at the same time as the release of Microsoft’s new version of Office – the latter currently known as ‘Office 15’.
“With Office 15, for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio”, the statement said.
We know that Office 15 has already been released for technical preview, and that Microsoft intends releasing the public beta version late in the summer.
Now, the smart money among industry observers is on the full public release of Office 15 being made available at the end of the year. This is because it is anticipated to follow the likely launch of the corporation’s new Windows platform, Windows 8; which itself is expected to take place sometime between late summer and the end of the year.
Ergo, we would therefore hope to also see the new version of SharePoint in London at the end of the year.
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