Well, there has not been any official announcement yet about when everyone will get to play with Exchange 14; however, a little (not so deep) detective work yields some interesting information. By taking a quick look at the upcoming Microsoft TechEd conference sessions, we immediately notice a whole slew of Exchange 14 sessions. What that usually means is that the product should be available in beta BEFORE May 11th 2009, the day TechEd opens. If I was a betting man (and I am), I would bet on a public beta prior to May 11.

 

Get ready, this one will be fun!?!

Well, we are inching closer and closer to a public release of Exchange 14, likely to be named Exchange Server 20xx (Maybe Exchange Server 2010 ?). The cat is out of the bag, Microsoft has finally made a public release of information on Exchange 14 through a video on TechNet Edge. Not much was described in there, except for:

 

1. A user's ability to create and manage his distribution groups.

2. An administrator's ability to use a new web based administration page.

3. Continuous features for OWA and Exchange ActiveSync

 

Though this video discussed Exchange Labs more than Exchange 14, more videos on Edge will provide more Exchange 14 information in the new future. You should also come back to this blog to get more info Exchange 14, since I've been running beta versions for 10 months now... Lots of good stuff coming our way!!!