Microsoft Exchange 2007 is RTM !

This email from Jeff Raikes just popped up in my mailbox :

I’m very pleased to announce that the Exchange team has completed its development work on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.  Congratulations to the team on this terrific accomplishment! 

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 delivers fantastic innovation including:

· Unified Messaging that delivers voice mail and fax messages to the Exchange inbox

· Greater mobility support – for example, IT administrators can enforce security policies on mobile devices with greater control and granularity and end-users get full fidelity HTML mail

· 64-bit architecture that allows organizations to increase the number of users per server or allow larger mailbox quotas while reducing per-mailbox storage costs

· Anti-spam that ensures mail from your contacts gets through, while keeping the bad stuff out

And, with over 500,000 beta testers who helped shape and strengthen it, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is our most tested Exchange release ever.   Hundreds of early-adopter enterprise customers are already using this product and realizing great productivity gains for their information workers along with simplified management and reduced costs for IT.   

 

The Productteam did a superb job and I really like and enjoy the new Exchange 2007 features.

Also in The Netherlands a number of clients are already running Exchange 2007 as part of the Technology Adoption Program. They (ofcourse) will be migrating to the RTM release in the short term. Many other clients have postponed their implementation plans to this milestone and numerous project will be starting in the short term.