What is Microsoft's Product Roadmap for Vista, Server, XBOX, Office et al

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08/30/2007

At July 2007's Financial Analyst Meeting Steve Ballmer presented on "Driving Shareholder Value". Steve Clayton and Long Zheng referred to the "FY08 and beyond" slide as it effectively provided a roadmap to many of Microsoft's products - this is no mean feat for a single slide.

You can view the entire presentation yourself though you may find as I did that the text is a little small hence I've re-worked it below and included links to each of the technologies too. There's also an on demand webcast too - Click here for Steve Ballmer's session - to hear Bill Gates click here

Note: In the interest of clarity I have not included the prefix "Microsoft" for the product names.

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows Server 2008

•Windows Small Business Server

(code name “Cougar”)

•Windows Server

(code name “Centro”)

•Windows Vista SP1

•Windows Server 2008 Update Release

•Windows Server 2008 SP1

SECURITY

•Forefront

•code name “Stirling”)

•Client Security

•Security for Office Communications Server

•Security Management Console

•Intelligent Application Gateway 2007

•security for Exchange Server “14”

•security for Sharepoint “14”

OPERATIONS

•System Center

•Operations Manager 2007

•Essentials “v2”

•Configuration Manager 2007

•Data Protection Manager “v2”

•Virtual Machine Manager

•Service Manager

•Capacity Planner 2007