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 Jan. 2008 Enterprise Software Roadmap include the following:

Exchange and Windows SharePoint Services will be hosted at Microsoft for businesses as part of a suite of online services beginning in the second half of 2008; a similar service is planned for Communications Server in 2009
Communications Server 2007 will not be supported on Windows Server 2008, which shipped in Feb. 2008; the first Communications Server version to run on Windows Server 2008 will probably ship no earlier than 2009
Visio 14, the code-named next version of Visio, will adopt the Office Fluent UI and support customization in Visual Studio, among other probable improvements discussed at a Feb. 2008 conference
Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP1 shipped; it is the only version of the product supported on Windows Server 2008
Search Server 2008, the next version of a product formerly called SharePoint Server for search, shipped in

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