Microsoft has provided the first glimpse of its next wave of Office-related products, with the release of the public beta of its Exchange Server 2010. It confirmed that the Microsoft Office 2010 suite will be available in the first half of 2010.
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 will become available in the second half of 2009 and the new Office family will enter technical preview in the third quarter of 2009, according to Danie Gordon, product manager at Microsoft SA.
“IT professionals can choose to deploy and manage servers on-premises or from the cloud, and developers get more opportunities to build innovative solutions and grow their business,” Gordon says. “It will help lower communications costs, improve user productivity and transform e-mail archiving, through a new integrated e-mail archive.”
Microsoft says Exchange 2010 will help organisations reduce costs with more flexible deployment and management options. It will also protect communications and improve e-mail user productivity, as well as offer increased performance - running on lower-cost direct-attached storage, it will enable organisations to reduce storage costs by up to 85%.
The solution makes it easier to store and query e-mail across the organisation, Microsoft says. Together with Microsoft Outlook 2010, it will give people more control over their communications with features like MailTips - this warns users about various occurrences, like when they are about to send mail to a large distribution group, to recipients who are out of the office, or to recipients outside the organisation.
Exchange Server 2010 also sports the capability to preview voicemail directly in Outlook in a text format, and the 'Ignore Conversation' feature, which allows users to remove themselves from an irrelevant e-mail string, according to the company.
Microsoft says a public beta of Exchange Server 2010 is currently available.
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