First of all, forget the word MOSS for SharePoint 2010, since Microsoft will remove SharePoint from Office system, although we have been getting familiar with SharePoint in Office but I see it is more suitable for this great product to be a separated server product, but what shall we call MOSS then? I guess Microsoft is now thinking about new name to be added to SharePoint names.

Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President, Information Worker Product Management Group, announced that Microsoft will begin releasing new versions of Office-related products this year. Exchange 2010 will be the first product in this lineup, entering beta for customers to download today. Exchange 2010 will become available in the second half of 2009. Office 2010 — including Office Web applications, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 — will enter a technical preview in the third quarter of 2009 and will release to manufacturing in the first half of 2010.

Right now we don’t have an exact or official list with new features in SharePoint 2010; however I’ve tried to collect as much as I can from posts I’ve read like:

1. SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only.
2. SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2.
3. SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.
4. Internet Explorer 6 won’t be supported by Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
5. Faceted Search will be included OOTB in SP2010.
6. FAST Search for SharePoint. A new version of FAST Search for SharePoint at a lower cost.
7. The SharePoint team has scrapped their efforts to make the SharePoint search engine scale beyond 50 million documents in a single index. The argument will be to move to the FAST search engine instead.
8. Visual Studio 2010 will ship with comprehensive support for developing Web parts, features, solutions, content types, etc.
9. VS 2010 will among other things ship with a visual Web part designer
10. New server explorer inside Visual Studio that let you explores sites, lists, documents and other SharePoint objects.
11. Windows SharePoint Services 4.0 will ship with a new XSLT-based list view with the following improvements:
    • SharePoint Designer customization support
    • Conditional formatting
    • Improved developer experience with XSLT standard-based language support.