Feature

Summary

Probability

Source(s)

64-bit only

The SharePoint v14 / 2009 will be shipped only as x64 installation

CONFIRMED

TechNet

Silverlight

Silverlight 2.0 webparts or UI will be present.

MOST PROBABLY

Speculation

Super-Lists

SQL tables-like behaviour for SharePoint lists

PROBABLY

Bill Gates

Groove Integration

If the user has Groove client installed, more options will be displayed for data synchronization, in more seamless way.

PROBABLY

Ray Ozzie

Master Data Management

Master data source for keeping only one version of the truth. This data can be surfaced as SQL Server views or SharePoint data. In essence, a rebranded and somewhat expanded version of Stratature product +EDM, now known as Codename “Bulldog”.

MOST PROBABLY

Wikipedia
Microsoft MDM

XHTML-compliant output

SharePoint UI will produce clean XHTML-compliant output.

PROBABLY

Speculation

FAST search integration

FAST-based enterprise search as a Search replacement. Webparts that show FAST search results.

MAYBE

CMS Watch

ODF and PDF support

Custom filters won’t be necessary to index and extract metadata from ODF and PDF files.

PROBABLY

Microsoft

CMIS support

Content Management Interoperability Services will allow SharePoint to communicate with other ECMs via web services.

MOST PROBABLY

Microsoft

Claims-based Authentication mechanism

Decouples the authentication mechanism from its implementation. It will enable SharePoint to use any interoperable authentication mechanism to authenticate the users.

MAYBE

Network World