What’s Gone In SharePoint 2010

by Stefan on 08 Feb 2010

As Joel Oleson says in a recent blog post:

You hear about all the new features in SharePoint 2010, but what isn’t there?

The SharePoint Team at Microsoft not only has added functionality, but also has retired features and code from the upcoming SharePoint 2010. Microsoft has published the list on MSDN.

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