What's New on the Business Application and Messaging Roadmap

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

Major changes to the roadmap for Microsoft’s business applications and messaging products since our last published version (Mar. 2004) include the following:

Office 2003 Service Pack 1 has been announced; due in summer 2004, it delivers new features for the InfoPath 2003 forms application
OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1, which delivers new features for Microsoft’s note-taking application, has been announced; it will ship concurrently with Office 2003 SP1
Exchange Edge Services, a new edition of Exchange Server 2003 for spam filtering, virus scanning, and other e-mail gateway functions, has been announced with plans for a 2005 release
The future Exchange release code-named Kodiak has been removed from Microsoft’s product roadmap, although a release that provides some of Kodiak’s planned features is possible after the release of Windows Longhorn Server in 2007
Live Communications Server 2005, which will enhance Microsoft’s instant messaging and presence product for better scalability and

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