Microsoft with the 2010 version of SharePoint appears to have listened to feedback concerning the 2007 release of the product, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, said conference attendee Gregory Romaniuk, browser technology team lead with the Alberta Teachers Association in Edmonton.

"It looks like things are moving in the right direction for integration with various Web browsers and client and server things," Romaniuk said.

Keeping things up to date has been an issue with the 2007 product, he said. "From what they said, I think they're going to try to simplify that," said Romaniuk.

SharePoint 2010 products include:

Microsoft on Monday also detailed its PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint product line, for dealing with large volumes of data.