SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching.
Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries and
lists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint
Services or directly to portal areas.

SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching.
Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries and
lists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint
Services or directly to portal areas.

Security can be handled at the machine, domain, or sharepoint level.

Document libraries consist of your core documents. An example would be a word document,
excel, powerpoint, visio, pdf, etc. Form libraries consist of XML forms.

Document workspaces consist of information surrounding a single or multiple documents.

CAML stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an XML-based language
that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for
example, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows
SharePoint Services database during site provisioning.

The file extension of a web part.

Global Assembly Cache folder on the server hosting SharePoint. You place your assemblies there
for web parts and services.

Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information
sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services - a key piece of the
information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 - provides
additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it
serves as a platform for application development.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide
additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management,