Exchange Server 2010 beta goes public

Stephen Withers
Friday, 17 April 2009 12:18

Business IT - Technology

customisable call-routing menus; and

a consistent experience across PCs, mobile phones and web browsers.

"Exchange 2010 will become available in the second half of 2009," said Oscar Trimboli, director of the information worker business group at Microsoft Australia.

The rest of the next wave of Office-related products is further away.

"Microsoft Office 2010 and related products will enter technical preview in the third quarter of 2009 and become available in the first half of 2010," said Trimboli.

There have been some reports that there will not be a public beta of Office 2010, but a Microsoft official has confirmed that a public beta will follow the invitation-only technical preview.

What we don't yet know is whether there will be a distribution charge for the beta as occurred after users downloaded more than three million copies of Office 2007 beta 2.