Microsoft's server roadmaps: Windows Server, SQL Server, Office 365 and more

By | November 7, 2011, 7:06am PST

Summary: Want more information on where Microsoft’s private- and public-cloud server products are headed? Check out our on-demand Webcast and “cheat sheet.”

Last week, I served up one of ZDNet’s Webcasts dedicated to the future of Microsoft’s various server products. In just about an hour, I whipped through the roadmaps I’ve been able to assemble for a wide variety of Microsoft product families, including Windows Server, Windows Azure, SQL Server, SQL Azure, Office 365, the coming Office 15 servers, System Center and more.

The Microsoft Server Roadmap Webcast is now available on demand (registration is required, but if you’ve already registered for any ZDNet content before, you’re good to download). As an added bonus, I compiled all my notes for the Microsoft Server Webcast into a multi-page “cheat sheet,” which also is freely downloadable with registration.

As Microsoft customers, partners and company watchers know, it’s not so easy to get roadmap data out of most teams at the company any more. I’ve culled a number of sources — and mixed in various tips — to come up with what I’ve got. If you watch/read and catch any errors, let me know. (All tips are treated as confidential unless contributors ask to be mentioned.)

Are there other Microsoft product roadmaps you’re interested in learning about? If so, let me know and I’ll do my best to assemble them.

Kick off your day with ZDNet's daily e-mail newsletter. It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it.

Topics

Mary Jo has covered the tech industry for more than 25 years for a variety of publications and Web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts, speaking about all things Microsoft-related. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

Disclosure

Mary-Jo Foley

Freelance journalist/blogger Mary Jo Foley has nothing to disclose. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). I do not own Microsoft stock or stock in any of its partners or competitors. I have no business ventures that are sponsored by/funded by Microsoft or any of its partners or competitors.

Biography

Mary-Jo Foley

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning "At The Evil Empire" column for ZDNet, and more recently the Microsoft Watch blog for Ziff Davis.

Got a tip? Send her an email with your rants, rumors, tips and tattles. Confidentiality guaranteed.

4
Comments

Join the conversation!

Just In

lrgkoxe 72 ypy
bdfwekrdfe84-24378990820066977070097391814489 22nd Nov
bhemrv,jvzzenvb08, pukiz.
Hi Mary Jo - since you're offering, I'd love to see a roadmap for Microsoft Dynamics CRM happy cheers!
0 Votes
+ -
Contributr
Dynamics CRM roadmap
Mary Jo Foley 9th Nov
There's more in the Webcast, but here's a post on the near-term stuff coming:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-crm-whats-coming-in-the-next-release/11059

MJ
0 Votes
+ -
Sad really
Richard Flude 8th Nov
"As Microsoft customers, partners and company watchers know, it???s not so easy to get roadmap data out of most teams at the company any more"

So true. They don't even talk up what their "going" to do, sometime. These days a few gibberish press releases.

A company that has lost its way, and increasingly its self belief (however unfounded it was in the past).
0 Votes
+ -
lrgkoxe 72 ypy
bdfwekrdfe84-24378990820066977070097391814489 22nd Nov
bhemrv,jvzzenvb08, pukiz.

Join the conversation!

Formatting +
BB Codes - Note: HTML is not supported in forums
  • [b] Bold [/b]
  • [i] Italic [/i]
  • [u] Underline [/u]
  • [s] Strikethrough [/s]
  • [q] "Quote" [/q]
  • [ol][*] 1. Ordered List [/ol]
  • [ul][*] · Unordered List [/ul]
  • [pre] Preformat [/pre]
  • [quote] "Blockquote" [/quote]
ie8 fix
Click Here

The best of ZDNet, delivered

ZDNet Newsletters

Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox

Facebook Activity

White Papers, Webcasts, & Resources
ie8 fix