Posts Tagged ‘Wave 14’

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Apologies to all my faithful readers for the extended hiatus. Ol’ Steve-O here has about a gazillion+1 things going on in his life and he thinks it’s really odd to talk about himself in the 3rd person. Anyway… onward to some news-ish-y stuffs! Yaaay!

How’s your French? Mine is pretty freakin’ horrible. Luckily, deductive logic + Babelfish sufficed quite nicely.

On the 15th of April, 2009, a presentation was given in France regarding Exchange 2010 and, “Wave 14.” There are a number of details in this document, including the pillars of Exchange 2010, some statistics and percentages that come along in just about every presentation I get a hold of, and other randomness – but the following details are what I found to be the most appealing, seeing it as this is as-recent-as-7-days-ago confirmation of certain release schedules previously noted internally and brought to us by wzor.net and neowin.net, to name a couple:

April 15: Exchange Server 2010 Beta 1 was released via Microsoft.
July 2009: Office 2010 Beta 1 scheduled for release.
3rd Quarter 2009: SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 Techical Previews scheduled for release.
2nd Half 2009: Exchange Server 2010 RTM
1st Half 2010: Office 2010, Sharepoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 RTM

Yay, pictures!

Honestly, I haven’t been keeping up with the most recent news regarding Office 14, but I figured the aforementioned information out of an April 15th, 2009 presentation was – at the very least – worth mentioning; even if only to reinforce what’s already out there!

In other news, UX Evangelist is going through some major changes behind the scenes, including a name change to reflect more accurately the content of this blog (since it’s not just primarily UX-based content any longer). So, I’m still around! Things are just taking a while with everything else I have going on these days. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

-Stephen