SearchExchange: Microsoft to delay SMTP relay software

December 20 2004

The roadmap for Exchange hits another pothole...

Microsoft's ever-changing messaging and collaboration roadmap is about to get another makeover, as the anticipated Exchange Edge Services platform, originally due out in 2005, is pushed to 2006 and given a bigger mission. ....
Microsoft will now make the SMTP relay software a part of the larger Exchange product and its gateway role will include more than just spam-fighting features. Microsoft plans to detail its future designs for Exchange in January, company officials have previously said.
The very same reporter wrote in August that "a top Microsoft Exchange executive said the company in late October will reveal more explicit information for the messaging platform's next generation data store", and that didn't happen.  This could put a new spin on the usual competitive "January surprise".
For those not following along, Michael Sampson anticipated news of this sort last week, when he posited, "Perhaps Microsoft doesn't need a roadmap for Exchange".
Link: SearchExchange: Microsoft to delay SMTP relay software >

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  1. 1  Sean Burgess http://www.phigsaidwhat.com | 12/21/2004 9:36:02 AM

    I commented on this in my blog today - { Link }

    I just wonder if MS is going to pay the price many other companies have paid in the past for product line blunders such as this.

    Sean---

  1. 2  Richi Jennings http://richi.co.uk/blog/ | 12/21/2004 12:29:22 PM

    { Link }

    An observation: although Hotmail and MSN now examine SPF records as part of their spam scoring for incoming email, Exchange still does not [...] Surely Microsoft will roll out a SPF/SenderID update to IMF soon? The Lotus community's scorn over the Exchange roadmap isn't entirely justified, but it seems to be getting louder by the day.

  1. 3  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 12/21/2004 2:48:21 PM

    I posted this comment in reply to Richi on the Ferris blog as well... I'd like to know on what basis he makes the assertion that the "scorn over the Exchange roadmap isn't entirely justified."

  1. 4  Dave Harris www.wavysworld.com | 12/21/2004 3:06:59 PM

    Well, Ed, how can you scorn something that doesn't exist ;o)

  1. 5  Richi Jennings http://richi.co.uk/blog/ | 12/22/2004 7:46:16 AM

    Ed Brill's comment to Richi's post yesterday prompted me to post my own view on the "scorn" over the lack of an Exchange roadmap.

    I don't believe for a second that there is no Exchange roadmap in Redmond, it's simply that... { Link }

  1. 6  Richi Jennings http://richi.co.uk/blog/ | 12/23/2004 5:26:37 AM

    I've been biting my tongue about this. Some background at { Link }

  1. 7  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 12/23/2004 5:54:29 AM

    and I've commented there as well as in my other thread. I'm not sure that you've answered the comment about "scorn", though.

  1. 8  Richi Jennings http://richi.co.uk/blog/ | 12/23/2004 9:03:40 AM

    Looks like you're right about the January surprise. See { Link }