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October 8, 2009 10:18 AM PDT

Microsoft finalizes Exchange 2010

by Ina Fried

Microsoft said Thursday that it has finalized the code for Exchange 2010, the next version of its e-mail and communications server.

Exchange 2010, which has been ahead of the rest of the Office family in development, becomes the first of the Office 2010 wave of products to be finished.

"Our senior leadership team has signed off on the final code, and it has been sent to our early adopters for one final look before its public release.," Microsoft said in a blog posting.

The product will become broadly available in November, Microsoft, said with a launch planned for the TechEd Europe conference, which runs Nov. 9-13 in Berlin. Other parts of Office 2010, such as the new versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, are not due until next year, with a beta slated for later in 2009.

Among the features in the next Exchange is an ability to ignore a particular e-mail conversation, as well as "MailTips," which offers warnings when one might be about to commit an e-mail faux pas.

Microsoft developed Exchange 2010 as a service first, using it to power its Live@edu mail service and then worked to create the server version of the software--a reversal of the past way Exchange and other products have been created.

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
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by jellybeenz October 8, 2009 2:02 PM PDT
Clippy for Exchange 2010: "It looks like you're trying to flame a colleague using ALL CAPS. Would you like some assistance?"
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by tekwiz4u October 8, 2009 2:24 PM PDT
I will NEVER a product that uses the 'as a service' technology. Never want any of my emails going thru any MS cloud. I can see where they would extract more money down the road. Like pay-per-seat, bandwidth, and software limitations. 'In house' server software always works best for any company.
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by Mr. Dee October 8, 2009 3:33 PM PDT
Google is already doing that with Google Apps Premier and their service goes down when it feels like it.
by Random_Walk October 8, 2009 3:24 PM PDT
...does this mean that store.exe will stop sucking down 90% (literal) of the server RAM now?
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