Using SharePoint core components

A lot of people find it hard to wrap their head around SharePoint, and you might…be one of those people.…Perhaps you've been playing with this thing called SharePoint for a while, and…you don't really get it yet.…You're waiting for that one simple description, that one simple sentence that…will suddenly make it all make sense.…Well, unfortunately, you won't get that one sentence from me.…The reason that it's hard to have a simple description is that SharePoint is not…a simple thing to explain.…The main reason for that is that SharePoint isn't one thing.…

SharePoint isn't a program. It's a platform.…It's 100 different products and technologies, all wrapped up and given a name.…From one perspective, working with it is a bit like learning the Microsoft…Office or Adobe Suites.…You can't really learn Office.…You can learn Word, and Excel, and OneNote and so on, or with the Adobe Suites,…you don't really learn the Master Collection.…You'll learn Photoshop, then After Effects and then Premiere.…You might buy Master Collection and never use InDesign.…