PRODUCT ROADMAPS

Microsoft product roadmaps all-in-one planning references summarize 100+ current and planned versions of Microsoft's most important enterprise products.

MICROSOFT LICENSING

We demystify Microsoft licensing programs to help you budget purchases and stay in compliance without overbuying.

RESEARCH REPORTS

We put all the critical facts you need to intelligently evaluate new Microsoft enterprise products at your fingertips.

Rob Horwitz

Expertise: Licensing, unified communications, and corporate strategy.

As research chair, Rob Horwitz keeps Directions focused on its mission of providing clients with clear, concise, and actionable analysis of Microsoft technologies, strategies, product roadmaps, licensing policies and organizational structure. He also writes extensively on Microsoft licensing policies and rules.

Before co-founding Directions on Microsoft in 1992, Rob spent eight years at Microsoft in a variety of software development and technical marketing roles. He was a software developer on the first version of Macintosh Word and marketed Microsoft operating system- and server-based products while in the developer relations, networking product marketing, international, and OEM marketing groups.

Rob holds a B.S. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Wharton.