Five New and Improved Features

2. Going Offline with SharePoint Workspace

Offline access to MOSS 2007 has been a sticking point for businesses and is considered inferior to the offline capabilities of rival Lotus Notes/Domino.

A demonstration of offline support with SharePoint Workspace 2010.

SharePoint 2010 catches up to Lotus Notes with SharePoint Workspace, a client application based on technology designed by Ray Ozzie's old company (Groove Networks), that makes SharePoint libraries, lists and forms accessible offline.

SharePoint Workspace will offer two types of functionality: as a peer-to-peer collaboration system based on the legacy Groove architecture, and as a client to the SharePoint server. Any given workspace will be in either the client server or peer-to-peer, but not both.