It's more dramatic on a small screen, like a smartphone. Have you ever tried to move a file in SharePoint? It's nearly impossible in classic SharePoint, and is one of many things made easy in the modern version. The difference is subtle, but the modern page is definitely easier to use, and allows more advanced filtering and bulk editing. Lists and libraries have the new look here is a classic document library next to a modern one so you can compare. So far, modern SharePoint exists only in SharePoint Online. It's more than a fresh look, it's designed from the ground up to work on mobile devices, and it addresses dozens of nagging usability issues. Modern SharePoint is a whole new user experience. It would have taken a lot of work to make a classic SharePoint site look like this! Moreover, the site automatically adapts to a narrow phone screen, keeping the page readable without sideways scrolling on any screen size. No customization or advanced configuration was needed.
Here is one of the modern sites, a Communication site, which would be used for publishing information on an Intranet. These pages, and sites built from them, remove decades of frustration and are a pleasure to use. So last year they started phasing in new "modern" SharePoint pages based on up-to-date web technology. Microsoft was at a crossroads: overhaul the aging collaboration product, or watch it die a slow and painful death.
Of course there will always be value in helping to design an Intranet that fits an organization's business and culture, but all too much time was spent applying arcane customization techniques that had accumulated over the years. As a SharePoint consultant, clients often asked me to make it look like "anything but SharePoint".Ī SharePoint Intranet arrived in pieces, like the parts of a house delivered to a building site, leaving customers to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars putting them together. Unlike guitars and whiskey, software doesn't improve with age. Since then, new features have been layered on top, staying within the constraints of that original foundation. SharePoint's "classic" user interface was introduced in late 2002. This article will explain how they're doing it, and why you might want to take a fresh look on this stalwart collaboration product. So here it is: Microsoft is on a mission to modernize SharePoint, to save it from fading into obscurity as a once innovative but now persnickety old war horse of a product. It's only available online (at the time of this writing anyway), and is slowly being phased in as developers build it out. The question I get the most these days is, "what is this modern SharePoint you keep talking about?" It might sound like an oxymoron! All my SharePointy friends know about it, and debate the finer points over beer at SharePint, but to the casual user, or someone who's been working on premises, it may be a bit of a mystery.
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