Evolutionary SharePoint - Peter O'Kelly takes a quick tour through the past, present and future of Microsoft's SharePoint product suite.

WSS is presented in a nicely integrated Office 2003 interface. Outlook users, for instance, don't need to be aware of WSS details; they'll simply work with the new meeting workspace and shared attachment features as natural extensions to Outlook, much as the users of the earlier OSE could use Web Folders in a conceptual model very similar to the one used for local hard disk folders.