This time the guys at the Microsoft Support have leaked some juicy details about the next version of SharePoint. In their description of the (not yet) delivered Service Pack 2 for SharePoint 2007 issues, they mention few issues related to the pre-upgrade check. This check is supposed to be run when you want to upgrade to the new version of SharePoint (even they leaked the name of the next WSS, which is called Windows SharePoint Services 4.0, but the review process has promptly replaced this reference to “next version of SharePoint”). Reading these descriptions, we can almost certainly confirm:
- CAML language for view and content type descriptions will be deprecated and the new SharePoint version will use XSLT instead
- Large lists (with more than 2000 elements) will be slower than usual, with some kind of a threshold value
- There will be Gradual and Database Attach upgrade, at least
More information
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960577/en-us