The first session I visited at the Microsoft SharePoint Connections 2010 was an overview about new functions for end users in SharePoint 2010. It is structured  in the six fields of SharePoint 2010:
1.       Sites
2.       Communities
3.       Content
4.       Search
5.       Insights
6.       Composites
Sites
·         Enhanced User Experience with the Ribbon (known from Office 2007 and 2010) and SharePoint Workspace
·         Anywhere Access (mobile access, Office Web Applications, Cross Browser support, offline Access with SharePoint Workspace
·         Single Plattform
Communities
·         Informal Knowledge (User Feedback, pervasive Tagging, rating system, Noteboard for discussions for Sites and Documents)
·         Social connections (enhanced MySite, news feeds, alerts)
·         Participation anywhere (work online or offline, mobile User Interface, social context)
Content
·         User centric (content metadata and tagging, rapid creation and publishing of web content)
·         Enterprise wide taxonomies, cross farm policies and rules for all content types
·         Views: different Views for Subfolders are now possible
·         Saving Documents: only changes are send back to the server
·         Drop off Library: Save content automatically to the correct place
Search
·         Better answers and faster (relevance based on usage and history)
·         Knowledge Amplification (phonetic multi lingual, interests and expertise, secure access to content in and outside of SharePoint)
·         Enterprise Deployment (Search driven applications to enrich the platform)
·         FAST: (Previews of the search results, total number at the criteria, …)
Insights
·         Data Interaction (Analyses with Excel Services, easy sharing, data visualization)
·         Decision Making (Powerful Self Service capabilities, dashboards, reports with access to millions of rows)
Composites
·         User-Driven Solutions (Toolsets for End User, Visio Services, Data Validation with forms)
·         Data Connectivity (Business Connectivity Services
·         Solution Deployment (Sandboxed solutions, resource quota-management)
 
 
 
  
 