

Then Microsoft really started to focus on the Cloud and Office 365 started pulling ahead in terms of what it offered end users. Office 365, or its even earlier incarnation BPOS (remember that one!), was quite a way behind SharePoint 20. Back in the early days of Office 365 these differences were quite pronounced.

On Prem and Cloud SharePoint, or rather Office 365, also differ by feature set. More information is available here, though obviously pricing will vary by country and region.

The reason for that is simple the differences between the Cloud version of SharePoint (known as Office 365 to most) and On Prem SharePoint are vast, which brings the question… On Prem or the Cloud? You may have noticed that we don’t have a section for Office 365 in the summary above. OneDrive integration as a replacement for MySites.Sandboxed solutions and client access to the API.Overhaul of the Shared Service Providers in favor of Service Applications and the ability to pool them.Introduction of SharePoint Designer (Post FrontPage era begins).A quick summary of these is as follows: SharePoint 2007 With each release, Microsoft has added new features and rebuilt others. Office 365: Released in 2011 (With SharePoint2010 interface).To start, it might help if we build a quick timeline of recent history: This blog post is the first of three posts that’s going to look at the key differences between SharePoint versions. The product has evolved enormously and we wanted to take a look at exactly what’s changed. Over the years, and across these versions, we’ve seen quite significant changes in SharePoint. Delve a little deeper and we’re sure that SharePoint 2003, and even 2001, are still kicking around somewhere in the darker corners of some companies. The product currently has at least 4 versions still in active use – SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013 and Office 365.īut that’s not all SharePoint 2016 is soon to join the family ( early next year according to Microsoft). The SharePoint landscape has a quite fascinating history.
