More of a cynical grin since many things may appear different but they are very similiar to SharePoint 2010. "Smile and grin at the change all around " Still need to embrace the latest and greatest even though my first impressions are not great. I need to learn everything new and understand the overall impact. I still need to acknowledge and cheer the new version. Office Web Apps, Office 365 Home Editions) The Office desktop products move along with SharePoint(or vice-versa) and they continue to be there to help drive some of the SharePoint evolution (e.g. "Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war "
Wrap it up in a different package and call it something different. Not sure what the SharePoint MVPs had to play with in February but it must have been awful.Ī few more service applications calling certain web parts "Apps" now The more things change the more they stay the same. I think we are all just happy there is something out there and we can play with it. "We were liberated from the fold, that's all " InfoPath form to modify New, Edit, View, etc.). Some great UI modifications as well (e.g. SP 2010 broke out the SSP and provided some great architecture modifications while keeping the core system in place. We knew there had to be a new product since there is a 3-year cycle. It's still cool to correlate thoughts to actual lyrics of a song though. And the morals that they worship will be gone And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgement of all wrong They decide and the shotgun sings the song Ill tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then Ill get on my knees and pray We dont get fooled again The change, it had to. It is going to take a lot of time to get your head around everything. There are some real paradigm shifts and improvements. After a few weeks of digging into other areas, I realized that although the core is similar to 2010, there are many new features and functionality that require further exploration.
UPDATE (): My first impressions were solely based on installing the preview and causally poking around. Note: This is just my first impression and I am sure once things start getting baked in and the actual release comes out my feelings will be more positive.
I think The Who's song "We Don't Get Fooled Again" describes my thoughts: I finally got SharePoint 2013 Preview up and running and started poking around.