What is MOSS?

MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) is a portal-based platform from Microsoft for collaboratively creating, managing and sharing documents and Web services. MOSS enables users to create portals that include shared workspaces, applications, blogs, wikis and other documents accessible through a Web browser. The free version, Windows SharePoint Server (WSS 3.0), lighter version of MOSS, usually referred to as simply SharePoint is available as a free download included with every Windows Server 2003 or higher license