Microsoft has just announced Office 2010. Surprisingly enough, it has genuinely interesting new features, most of them revolving around SharePoint and support for collaboration.

And, of course, The Cloud, where to Microsoft’s credit, alone among major software vendors its product makes serious use of the PC’s processing power instead of limiting its role to running a browser and Citrix client.

But the Office/SharePoint combo is missing something essential: A design methodology for the unstructured data stores it helps you manage.

Ever meet someone who just has to have a strong opinion on every subject, whether or not they know anything about it?

Those known for expertise are particularly prone to this ailment. Some of us, having learned one subject in great depth (in my case the behavior of electric fish), use that experience to recognize our lack of depth in other subjects.

But then there are those who figure their expertise in anything make them worth listening to about everything.