Editor's NoteAs users come to regard the massive, monolithic SharePoint as a lumbering dinosaur and solutions such as Slack, Basecamp, and their ilk as leaner, meaner beasts, SharePoint's future may be affected. In its prime, Microsoft SharePoint prospered, outlasting an entire generation of imitators. SharePoint's requirement for care and feeding was an inherent challenge from the start; it required significant resources and overhead to deploy successfully in many enterprises. Small organizations might profit from free or low-cost SharePoint versions, while bigger corporations had to continue the program through years of maintenance, versioning headaches, and regular hardware changes. To make matters worse for SharePoint's future, Microsoft has been slowly removing SharePoint SharePoint's Future Trends and LegacyOn-Premises capabilities for the past five years and has deprecated public-facing functionality entirely, pushing enterprises who rely on it to seek refuge with third-party providers. When Microsoft saw that the hundreds of hybrid deployments were not going away, it sensibly back-promoted SharePoint Online capabilities to its On-Premises parent. That will keep a lot of SharePoint shops happy for a long time. However, SharePoint's future is bleak. Because the product is integrated with Office 365, it is both inexpensive and easy as a business commitment. However, the days of large-scale SharePoint deployments for collaboration and content management are most likely past. Newer products are frequently equally adaptable, less priced, and do not require NET expertise for complex customizations.
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