In SharePoint 2007 the records management functionality was very poorly thought through and consequently organisations were dependent on the ecosystem around SharePoint for help in either getting the records management functionality to work or in providing an alternative set of records management functionality so that records were managed outside of SharePoint. The big question for SharePoint 2010 is to what extent will Microsoft provide records management functionality within the product that is coherent and robust enough for people to use without resort to the ecosystem around it? SharePoint 2010 doesn’t go into beta test until next month. I am writing this post on the strength of the reports by bloggers of Microsoft’s presentations to the SharePoint 2009 Conference in Las Vegas last week –…