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The SharePoint (SP) team has released a series of videos discussing many of the features that will be in the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/sneak_peek.  The three videos are broken down between a general overview, for the IT Pro and for the Developer feature set.

Really cool integration between Visual Studio and SharePoint are shown with debugging of features and web parts possible.  Additionally, there is LINQ for SharePoint for easier data programmatic access and the new Business Connectivity Services, creating a visual and powerful next generation BDC operations.  Other cool capabilities relate to Business Intelligence (BI) and paired with the SQL Server 2008 R2 BI new features, there is an awesome BI delivery system coming.

Something that is very encouraged is that I heard that SharePoint Online will be almost 100% feature compatible with MOSS (or whatever the for pay version will be called) including being able to put code up on the server!

Just as with SP 2007, there’ a lot to the new feature set in the 2010 version.  To start getting a handle on these new features there is a SharePoint Conference coming October 19 in Vegas, see http://MSSharePointConference.com.  Additionally, the Gold Coast Users Group http://GCUsersGroup.org will be having a meeting on the new features coming up on November 12.