So with all the new features of SharePoint 2010 the question should be asked what drove these features? Customers, certainly. The online community, most definitely. Industry groups, of course!
In the end though it is the customers that drive new features but the largest customer of SharePoint is… Microsoft.
With all the new features many of these have been driven directly by Microsoft pushing SharePoint online. Which ones you ask well…
Sandboxed Solutions
Makes perfect sense for hosted solutions. Give people just a little rope but not enough to hang themselves. By limited what a sandboxed solution can do SharePoint online can limit the damage that a stray web part may reek! Also it means less code reviews to get solutions up to SP Online which was a nightmare.
No downtime when patching systems
Once again with probably 500 servers this is a brilliant move on SP Online! Also it will save the poor infrastructure guys from having to come in on weekends as well!
Separation of Services
This is also another great move. Why waste all of the unnecessary services that are part of the SSP when you can save on power and processing by only giving clients what they need. By the way I think that it is a great move for all of SharePoint in general since the SSP thing just didn’t really work.
REST Services and Client Object Model
Once again why waste processing power using Web Parts on the server when all of this can be transferred to the client instead? I think that REST services and Client OM are great advances, I know that I will be using them.
Pushing of SilverLight
Once again the ultimate way to get more processing power for free…push this to your clients. Plus I really like SilverLight so its all good 
Now don’t think that I am being sarcastic but I have to say Microsoft are really starting to smarten up and I for one applaud them!
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