Few New Features in SharePoint 2010

1. Enhanced SharePoint Designer— Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 sports a new UI, improved workflow, and improved integration between designers. Also has a tabbed interface and provides breadcrumb navigation.
2. New browser support—SharePoint 2010 supports an extended set of browsers. It's designed to support XHTML 1.0–compliant browsers and will support Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 and IE 7.0, Firefox, and Safari. Notably, IE 6.0 isn't supported. So far, there's been no official mention of Google Chrome or Opera.
3. Enhanced collaboration features -calendars from Microsoft Exchange Server can be merged with SharePoint calendars.There's a new group authentication feature that's based on distribution list or organization and a new rich text editor for creating wikis.
4.Visio Services -share and collaborate on Visio diagrams.(Users no need to have Visio installed)
5.Usage reporting and logging - It has a new database to support usage reporting & logging.
6.FAST Search -enhanced capabilities like content-processing pipeline, metadata extraction, visual search, and advanced linguistics.
7.SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer -Microsoft's guidance for SharePoint implementation and troubleshooting.
8.New hardware requirements— SharePoint 2010 will ship only as a 64-bit product.
9. New software requirements—In addition to new hardware requirements, SharePoint 2010 will require an x64 edition of either Windows Server 2008
or Server 2008 R2. It also requires a 64-bit version of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005.
10.New SharePoint editions -In an effort to better unify the SharePoint lineup, Microsoft will make some big changes to the SharePoint editions with the 2010 release. Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) is gone, and so is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). The free WSS has been replaced by the new SharePoint Foundation 2010. MOSS is replaced by SharePoint Server 2010, which will be available in either the Standard or Enterprise edition as well as in editions for strictly internal sites and for Internet or extranet sites.