Posted by Eric Bartels

SharePoint 2010 RTM (and its Foundation) are available for awhile now. After installing SharePoint Foundation I immediately took a look into the meeting workspaces.

No improvements since the Beta! Not all lists support the new AJAX-Dialogs. The page-management (for multi-paged workspaces) is still the same as in 2007. Even some old (SP 2007) graphics appear. The handling is that awful, too. So the whole “area” of meeting-workspaces leaves with an “nothing happened here”-impression.

Additionally the meeting-workspace ribbon in Outlook 2010 is gone! You can get it back, but its not that preset as in 2007. This was a really nice feature in 2007. Outlook combined with meeting workspaces.

When taking all this together I’m really disappointed.
It comes to my mind that this whole “meeting-workspace-flow” will soon be removed from SharePoint/Outlook – No real improvements in SharePoint 2010 (haven’t tested building site-definitions from meeting-workspaces but I guess its still as hard as in 2007), ribbon in Office 2010 is gone per default and somewhat hidden.