SharePoint Conference 2009 started today at 9h PST (17h in Portugal).

Steve Ballmer and Jeff Teper where in stage presenting the new SharePoint 2010, and they gave very good news:

• Public Beta of SharePoint and Office 2010 in November 🙂 and the RTM in the 1 Half of 2010
• There will be a Standard License of SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites
• WSS change name to Windows SharePoint Foundation
• There will be very interesting REST API's (ex: get information from excel document)
• Multiple Document check-out's
• Lists will handle 1 Million Items per folder, 10 Million documents in a Document List
• In the IT administration side there will be +500 PowerShell Commands
• The new social features like tag clouds, ratings, facebook like wall

Later i will add some photos 😉