First take on SharePoint 2010

With no prior experience on MOSS 2007, I thought it would be hard to adopt SharePoint 2010. Enrolled to a four day Training course and was on to an assignment in SharePoint 2010.

I will detail my experience in the subsequent blogs about my learnings in any topics that I come across in SharePoint 2010.

Overall, I feel Microsoft has done a great job in providing a lot of developer tools and also in improving the User Experience.
Hats on for the exhaustive collection of the MSDN articles. They have structured it very well.

Start with the following links:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794341.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/sharepoint/bb964529(en-us).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/hi-in/sharepoint/ff601871(en-us).aspx

A lot of improvement in both Office and SharePoint 2010 and collaboration within these products.

My best takes:
Service Application Architecture enhancing the SSP architecture.
Offline capabilities through SharePoint Workspace.
Office on the web.
Better UI navigation compared to its predecessors.

Some tools that greatly enhance the capabilities of a SharePoint developer are
Visual Studio : Through a lot of plugins and templates.
SharePoint Designer : Rapid UI development

The collaborative capabilities of these applications make it more attractive for the organizations to think about investing in SharePoint 2010 to ensure that they are able to make the best use of their data that is not reaching to all of the information workers.