Okay so what is SharePoint? Now some reading this may laugh at this, but actually lets step back and look at this question.

Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 provides remote access to applications, networks, and internal resources from diverse client endpoints. You can allow access to multiple internal applications through a single IAG portal, or to a single Web application.

Public betas of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 will become available in November, CEO Steve Ballmer told the crowd attending Microsoft's SharePoint conference in Las Vegas on Monday.

Touting SharePoint Server 2010 as the biggest and most important release of SharePoint to date, Ballmer pointed to some of the collaboration platform's new features, which include a new ribbon user interface to customize SharePoint sites and Office integration through social tagging, backstage integration and document lifecycle management.

Microsoft has been offering its first web hosted security service under the Forefront brand since April of this year, dubbed "Forefront Online Security for Exchange" and designed to help keep malware and spam out of email inboxes.The current hosted service targets enterprise MS Exchange customers and includes a web-based console for setting up policies for virus and spam protection.