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posted by martyb on Saturday August 29 2015, @10:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the forecast-looks-'cloud'y dept.

Work in just about any big office and you have almost certainly been subjected to a semi-built corporate Sharepoint site your boss or the HR department hopes you will use rather than circulating important documents via email. And if you are like most tech-savvy folks, you have found it bafflingly difficult to use.

Microsoft hopes to correct that well-deserved reputation, and is launching a preview of Sharepoint Server 2016 to raise expectations about the new product.

Microsoft says its[sic] made “deep investment in HTML5” to give you “capabilities that enable device-specific targeting of content. This helps ensure that users have access to the information they need, regardless of the screen they choose to access it on.” And your users get a consistent experience whatever device they choose to wield, including on touch-enabled devices.

A new “cloud hybrid search” will permit users wielding “SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365 to retrieve unified search results through a combined search index in Office 365. The index for that search resides in Office 365, one of many features billed as letting you take advantage of hybrid cloud. The idea is that your on-premises SharePoint can pop the index, or other data, into Microsoft's cloud so you get the on-prem[ises] performance you want without having to bulk out your servers. But of course you do get into PAYG territory with the cloud.

That certainly qualifies as what the Register calls "Buzzword Compliant" but maybe there's true improvement there, too. Search for the expression "Sharepoint sucks" today and you'll get 209,000 hits including this one. Stick around and see if next year Microsoft turns the corner and makes Sharepoint something people find useful and effective.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by inertnet on Saturday August 29 2015, @12:11PM

    by inertnet (4071) on Saturday August 29 2015, @12:11PM (#229404) Journal

    Let's wait and see if they've 'improved' HTML5 significantly, so we can have the IE6 compatibility war all over again.

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  • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:26AM

    by Common Joe (33) <{common.joe.0101} {at} {gmail.com}> on Sunday August 30 2015, @10:26AM (#229773) Journal

    Indeed. I'm still trying to figure out how HTML 5 helps give device-specific targeting of content.

    I'm no web developer and I know a lot is done with CSS for different devices, but the whole point of HTML is to make it device independent. The article does make it sound like IE6 all over again.