By Greg DeMichillie [bio]
Posted: Jun. 9, 2008                             Purchase a copy of this report

The following an excerpt of a Product Roadmap report published by Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm focused exclusively on Microsoft strategy & technology. More samples of our content, as well as a list of upcoming articles and reports are also available.

Free! Executive Summary

The Developer Platform Roadmap helps customers plan application migration and select platforms for new development, with overviews of developer technologies, future plans, and dates for product releases, support, and retirement

Free! Introduction

Explains the products covered in the Developer Platform Roadmap and how the report is organized; also provides an overview of Microsoft's product support life-cycle phases

Presentation

Roadmap and support deadlines for products and technologies for building the user-interface portion of applications

Data Access

Roadmap and support deadlines for products and technologies for retrieving, displaying, and updating data in database management systems

Web Services and Workflow

Roadmap and support deadlines for products and technologies for Web services and workflow

Tools and Languages

Roadmap and support deadlines for developer tools and programming languages

Resources

Chapter lists Directions on Microsoft articles and reports about products mentioned in this Developer Platform roadmap