Here at Ignite I've been attending all the SharePoint and Office 365 related sessions to learn what's coming and what's changing, where the tagline is "Mobile First, Cloud First". After a keynote where it barely received a mention (almost accidentally said it seemed) and a roadmap session that was mostly a history lesson, we learned that Office 365 would now be the driver for the platform and not the Enterprise. The roadmap session spoke of social, analytics, and infrastructure improvements that would be coming but nothing specific, not even at a 10,000 foot level.
The sessions have talked about the faster feature-release cycle of Office 365 and that it may increase SharePoint On-Premises Service Pack availability, but no details on what may be in them or their components. Hopefully we won't see the forced feature changes that Office 365 pushes, instead going with the Yammer or Newsfeed option we received in SharePoint 2013.
What does this bode for the On-Premises platform? It's unclear what this will actually mean, besides that the cloud's capabilities and/or limitations will drive changes for On-Premises implementations. Does this mean that with every Service Pack we have to worry about features just disappearing for our users, core JavaScript API's changing/breaking causing solution rework, or even Master Page updates without path-forward steps. All of which have happened with little-to-no warning in Office 365.
I think it remains to be seen whether this bodes well for the platform. Time will tell if this shift will be celebrated by our users, or make future SharePoint versions feel lesser than before.
by Craig Pilkenton via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community
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