Other than the original date in 2017 (which coincidentally means "Thor: Ragnarok" is moving to November 3rd, 2017) the press release says that Spider-Man will appear in one other Marvel Cinematic Universe film before that time. Which that is can be up to debate, but consensus is that it will be "Captain America: Civil War". There has already been rumours that Marvel wanted Spider-Man to appear in that film, and it seems that they now get their wish.
But how good is this? One of the things that made Marvel as successful as they are is that they had to work with what they had. They had sold off most of their biggest characters' film rights, and were left building a multimedia powerhouse on the scraps that remained. Spider-Man is without a doubt the biggest Marvel character there is, people will show up to a new film just because he is Spider-Man. I guess if Marvel had to get Spider-Man this is an ideal point as they've already established their universe and the new major players within it. We will just hope that Spidey doesn't end up pushing them out. I guess we'll see as the years progress.
It is also worth noting that the press release offers no new information about the already existing Spider-Man franchise, but one can assume that it will not be the one continuing with Marvel, rather they'll start anew with a new Spider-Man and just skip the origin story as their new preference dictate. Perhaps this will lead to a Spider-Man who leads what many assume will be a new rooster of Avengers in the first part of "Infinity War". Especially as it now seems that "Inhumans" will be released after "Infinity War", meaning they likely had no part in the big franchise show-down.
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