Some interesting roadmap data has been published at Tech-ED. Well perhaps more stunning than interesting. I posted previously that maybe Microsoft were loosing their nerve and pushing product to market rapidly through fear of loss of revenue, and that there strategic re-architecting of the main product lines was potentially being compromised. However these dates tell a different story:
The core foundation elements, i.e. Longhorn Client and SQL Server come first. Then Longhorn Server, then Exchange Kodiak, Office System 12 and SPSv3 in 2007-8. Hopefully a new version of WSS sits somewhere around 2005-6. This implies that Microsoft are planning something significant in Office System 12, and that the information management and collaboration story might actually start to come together with the next versions of Longhorn server, Exchange and SPS. There’s a jpeg of the roadmap slide available here.
Microsoft are planning to give me some details under NDA of this stuff quite soon, so I maybe able to confirm some of this speculation at a high level.
2:09:50 PM 
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