Chris’ note:  This is a good overview of the MS release schedule, and the importance of working with your MS Licensing rep in concert with a good specialist consulting firm to plan your upgrade path.

 eg. Next generation desktop vision….

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reprinted from:

http://www.itvendorsdirectory.ca/Online-Resources/microsofts-software-pipeline-set-to-burst-001.html

FRAMINGHAM (05/14/2009) - LOS ANGELES — If there was one revelation at this week’s Microsoft TechEd conference it was that the company’s product pipeline is stuffed with new software timed for release in the next seven to 12 months that will force corporate IT to deftly plan and strategize how it wants to deal with the onslaught.

Four of Microsoft’s major platforms are queued up to be released near the end of 2009 or early 2010.

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 are all slated to ship by year-end, as is the company’s new identity federation platform, Geneva. 

On the heels of all that is another granddaddy Microsoft platform — Office 2010, which is slated to ship early in 2010 and includes the wildly popular SharePoint Server under the Office product family banner.

Behind that heavy-hitter lineup of software, each one individually capable of providing IT with an upgrade cycle that extends well past 12 months, is a new version of SQL Server and an appliance version of the database for massively parallel processing that will come in the first half of 2010.

Read more:

http://www.itvendorsdirectory.ca/Online-Resources/microsofts-software-pipeline-set-to-burst-001.html

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