What's New in Business Applications and Services

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration and content management. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s technology... more

Major developments for Microsoft’s business applications roadmap since the Mar. 2014 Enterprise Software Roadmap include the following:

SP1 shipped for the Office 2013 suite (including the Lync client), Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Project, Visio, and related applications in Mar. 2014, although a bug forced a recall of the SharePoint Server update.
The 2003 versions of Office, Visio, Project, and Project Server left extended support in Apr. 2014.
Exchange Server and SharePoint Server versions are planned for 2015, according to announcements at Microsoft’s SharePoint and Exchange conferences in early 2014.
Excel, PowerPoint, and Word iPad applications were released for Office 365 users in Apr. 2014.
Lync and Skype functionality for Windows Phone, and Windows 8 and 8.1 tablets (such as Microsoft’s Surface) continue to receive more features than other devices.
Lync and Skype tablet and phone applications received updates that bring their functionality closer to

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