I’m going to talk about another change in SharePoint 2013 that I think is worth shouting about. This is one of those areas where I got disproportionally excited about a new feature: you can do a loop in a SharePoint Designer workflow.

The Content Search Web Part is a new web part in SharePoint 2013 that lets you bring together data from across SharePoint into a single view.

Peter Klein, Microsoft’s outgoing chief financial officer has revealed that Microsoft is working with its hardware partners to release a range of smaller devices running Windows 8.

SharePoint 2013 brings in Machine Translation Services, which provides automatic content translation or packages up content in a standard format for human translation.

Microsoft’s plans for enterprise social networking will increasingly revolve around Yammer, following its purchase last year, with the intention to integrate it with both Office 365 and SharePoint.

A recent announcement has made it clear that Office 365’s first round of integration with Yammer is coming this summer.

In MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010, it’s technically possible to set up an environment so that some users have the SharePoint Standard CAL and some users have the Enterprise CAL. Note the word “technically.” In order to get it to work and be compliant, you have to be extremely careful about how you structure your SharePoint environment and how you manage security.

Access Services is an interesting topic in the 2013 context. When this was described to me, my first reaction was, “but we could do that in 2010.” Then you scratch the surface and discover that everything has changed under the hood.

In my previous post on how to move Hyper-v machines between hosts, the tricky bit was moving the network information – which switch exists and which switch should each machine be connected to.

I’ve been spending this week learning about SharePoint 2013 on the Ignite training. Partly in an effort to get this knowledge to stick in my brain, I’m going to be writing a series of blog posts on some of the topics covered that struck me as particularly interesting or significant. This is by no means a definitive list of changes.

Microsoft has given a significant boost to the development of interoperability and common standards by announcing that it has joined the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA).