This morning Bill Gates gave a keynote at the Developer Conference. His talk was about how to make dicisions between rich or thin clients and how Office 2003 can provide smart documents.
He also mentioned that he was a big fan of Sharepoint 2003 and the solutions build around it. According to him, Sharepoint provides a foundation for Office applications and system integration. Good to hear this from him ;). Seems like Sharepoint developers won't have to fear to get bored.
Bill Gates on his talk..sorry for the low quality :(
About Asp.Net 2.0 and the next version of Sharepoint in the Office 12 release, he garantueed that the webparts and code that was built on Sharepoint 2003 would be supported completely. This is not surprising when looking at the webpart development in Asp.Net 2.0, which is something that is really cool. I will blog something about this soon when I get back.
About the next version of Sharepoint; it's quite sure that it will be released with Office 12 in 2006. There is hardly any info given about this next release, but according to Mike, regular lists will support eventhandlers like document libraries do now already. This new version will run on Asp.Net 2.0 and therefore will support the webparts that can be designed (like user controls in Asp.Net) in Visual Studio.Net 2005.
Some great things are going to happen (and happen already)!
