As many of you have noticed I have not been posting my What’s new on the Office Roadmap updates. Well, I’ve been on a vacation not trying to think of Office 365 to start with, and then also, I’m ending my series of these posts. Sorry.
I have to start with saying that I love the amount of changes we see now in the Office 365 service. The team(s) is/are doing an amazing job with kicking out new features and updates in some areas. Our favorite SharePoint is killing it with features at the moment, and more is to come. And do believe this will continue for the foreseeable future.
Why? Why, do you do this? There’s plenty of reasons for me ending this series. It’s been going on now since March last year (which is way longer than I expected) and it was exactly 50 posts! So plenty of updates has been going on.
First of all it still takes me humongous amounts of time compiling each post, figuring out what’s changed, what each change actually means, filtering out false changes, going back to my old change posts, coping with errors in the changes etc etc.
But most importantly the reason I stop doing this is that the Roadmap does not really reflect the changes going on (yea I know, Roadmap and changes are not the same). Using the Roadmap as a guide on what’s to come is not that accurate that I hoped, sorry. And the #1 reason that I started this series was to get the Office 365 team to understand that we need a Roadmap where one can see changes, one that you understand the changes and one that you can trust, otherwise there’s no point! There’s no point giving you examples, there’s to many. After a year and half very little has happened…
I’m going to miss it though. I’ve had some fantastic online and offline support of these posts and I enjoyed adding some personal touch to my “analysis”. Some liked it, and some despised it to the extent that I’m actually persona non grata in some “communities”. I’m probably to close to the truth and far to many people have hard to understand irony…
Nevertheless…if you still want to find out what’s happening on the Office Roadmap site, the PowerShell script I had scheduled is available as a Gist on Github.
Thanks for all the support!