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SharePoint 2010 System Requirements and Browser Support

The Microsoft Share­Point team has announced on their offi­cial blog the fol­low­ing amaz­ing state­ment (empha­sis added):

“To ensure the best pos­si­ble expe­ri­ence across mul­ti­ple browsers we’re focus­ing our Share­Point 2010 engi­neer­ing efforts on tar­get­ing stan­dards based browsers (XHTML 1.0 com­pli­ant) includ­ing Inter­net Explorer 7, Inter­net Explorer 8 and Fire­fox 3.x. run­ning on Win­dows Oper­at­ing Sys­tems.  In addi­tion we’re plan­ning on an increased level of com­pat­i­bil­ity with Fire­fox 3.x and Safari 3.x on non-Windows Oper­at­ing Sys­tems.  Due to this focus Inter­net Explorer 6 will not be a sup­ported browser for Share­Point Server 2010.”

Amaz­ing! Even IE6 is seen as a dead tech­nol­ogy by Microsoft’s stan­dards. Hope­fully with news like this and Win­dows 7 pre-release excite­ment the browser might finally be rel­e­gated to the hall of tech­no­log­i­cal mis­takes. They also announced the WCM fea­tures in the next ver­sion will allow much greater con­trol over the markup which may finally make Share­Point a real can­di­date for WCM for public-facing sites!

The announce­ment does also focus that the tech­no­log­i­cal require­ments will be all 64 bit and based on Win­dows 2008 as the host platform.