Microsoft Exchange 2010 Beta Launched

Monday, 20 April 2009 11:44

Microsoft recently released the beta version of the next generation of its popular enterprise messaging product - Microsoft Exchange. Titled Exchange 2010, the product claims to be a major improvement over the last generation of Exchange, Exchange 2007. A commentator very aptly said "The new version of Exchange is light on new features and heavy on refinements". Microsoft also released the next version of the web version of its front end desktop mail client Outlook - OWA (Outlook Web Access). It is said that OWA 2010 makes up for some glaring omissions in the previous version of OWA, namely the ability to operate across multiple browsers on different operating systems.

Since this is a growing business focused blog, these products remain ever out of the reach of our focus audience, because of the tremendous costs. Although OWA does seem a major improvement over the previous version of OWA, which was sub standard at best, it still loses out on alternate messaging products like HyperOffice, since they also offer integrated collaboration features. It would be interesting to see if some kind of integration is possible between OWA 2010 and SharePoint portals.