Sharepoint 2007 has some good premises for SaaS like software deployment.

One of these would be the permissions the user has to only view/edit and delete the own items in a list. Imagine a HelpDesk or a CRM where a Company only "sees" it's own stuff, and within the company each user his/her own.

How could it be even better?

If it was easier to set item level permissions to isolate and restrict different Sharepoint groups to be able to see only their "items" in a list and each user in the group only his/her own, bar the groups admin seing all of the groups items.

That would make Sharepoint Saas by default.

http://www.gcn.com/print/26_19/44752-1.html

• 800 milion USD last year
• 85 milion seats deployed
• up to 70% will use it

read more on http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=arwUHnWLaPcU&refer=technology

http://blogs.msdn.com/mcsnoiwb/archive/2007/07/25/opening-documents-from-sharepoint-crashes-internet-explorer.aspx

(via http://blogs.msdn.com/ausptsiw/archive/2007/07/22/virtual-eart-web-part.aspx )

http://www.codejedi.net/2007/07/06/using-virtual-earth-in-sharepoint-part-1-of-2/

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/10/14/announcing-community-kit-for-sharepoint-virtual-earth-maps-on-sharepoint.aspx
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2005/08/01/1830.aspx
http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!9252.entry

A (blank) site template in MOSS is not compatible with a (blank) site in WSS.

I hope that in the next SP this is going to be fixed.

http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Ari/archive/2007/05/29/moss-site-templates-not-compatible-with-wss.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2006/09/05/application-development-on-moss-2007-amp-wss-v3.aspx

NHS : UK National Health Service (1 milion employees, budget 104 Bilion GBP - 150 bilion USD) built the portal on Sharepoint MOSS 2007.

http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx

http://bobfox.net/spblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=08b611f0%2D15a1%2D4708%2Da0c6%2D874f34da277d&ID=58

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/07/06/porting-sharepoint-designer-workflows-to-visual-studio.aspx

WSS and MOSS SDKs refreshed!

Utilizing MOSS Search Programmatically via the OM or Web Services

http://blogs.msdn.com/yuhujia/archive/2007/07/12/features-of-windows-sharepoint-services.aspx

Very vague, but it seems it will be possible to use different storage than SQL Server, probably starting with SP1. Might it be in conjunction with SQL Server 2008 Katmai?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938499/

Some Posts:

http://www.21apps.com/2007/06/sql-server-2008-helping-sharepoint.html

SQL Server 2008 - Helping SharePoint Scale cost effectively

A new plugin is here to restore the functionality of older Excel

http://blogs.msdn.com/scaravajal/archive/2007/06/28/excel-2007-add-in-for-syncing-with-sharepoint.aspx

Piu' su Sharepoint 2007 Credit Management

(via http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2007/06/oakleaf-systems.html)

http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2007/06/18/linq-to-sharepoint-announcing-the-0-2-alpha-release.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/walterst/archive/2007/06/20/sharepoint-2007-tools-collection-v2.aspx

(via http://blogs.msdn.com/roberdan/archive/2007/06/19/community-kit-for-sharepoint-2-0-pre-release-announcement.aspx) )

Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release announcement

Basically you get templates with more refined blog and wiki templates, plus much much more is in the pipelines

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=521

http://blogs.msdn.com/jjameson/archive/2007/06/17/issues-deploying-sharepoint-solution-packages.aspx

http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci1261157,00.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/06/13/whitepaper-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-hosting.aspx

Decatec &  Grid Computing anche su Milano Finanza

http://www.k2.net/bp/blackpearl.aspx

SharePoint deployment options - Features or Content Deployment-

Configure MOSS to crawl Lotus Notes

Very clever authentication mechanism

http://www.willierust.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=5

Windows SharePoint hits its stride

Autonomy to supply IDOL software for Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007