Sharepoint 2010 is the business Collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the web that enables you to connect and empower people through an integrated set of rich features. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, Sharepoint 2010 helps you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond to your business needs. To summarize it SharePoint 2010 is the next wave of SharePoint technology formerly codenamed SharePoint "14".

Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 will enter Beta in 2009 and is targeted for general availability in the first half of 2010.
Earlier versions of Sharepoint was heavily dependent on Internet Explorer browser. Sharepoint 2010 would allows you to browse sharepoint website across all popular browser. Sharepoint 2010 web portal can be viewed with Firefox, Safari browser. With this capability you would see new trend for developing website, wherein its easily to collaborate and socialize with other user's of website.