Microsoft roadmap 2008

This is rare. Blogger Long Zheng, whose blog is always full of humor and interesting tidbits, managed to get a hold of Microsoft’s 2008 Roadmap Powerpoint slide. He posted it in full. The slide was flashed at attendees of the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference in Denver and it lists the 56 products that Microsoft is promising to release next year.

Here it the list. The red asterisks indicate the products that Zheng says he is particularly interested in.

What do you think about Zheng’s choices? (We’ve contacted him and asked him to give his reasons). Which 2008 products are you most interested in?

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"
• Forefront Client Security
• Forefront Security for Office Communications Server
• Forefront Security Management Console
• Intelligent Gateway Application 2007
• Forefront Security for Exchange Server "14"
• Forefront Security for SharePoint "14"

IT Operations

• System Center Operations Manager 2007
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• System Center Essentials "v2"
• System Center Service Manager
• System Center Configuration Manager 2007
• System Center Capacity Planner 2007
• System Center Data Protection Manager "v2"
• Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007
• Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance

Online

• Windows Live
• Office Live
• MSN
• adCenter
• XBOX Live
• Live Search

Collaboration

• Office Communications Server 2007
• Office Communicator 2007
• Expression Studio
• Speech Server 2007
• Microsoft Tellme*
• Office:mac

Entertainment & Devices

• Zune*
• Mediaroom
• Windows Embedded CE
• Wndows Automotive
• Windows Media
• Surface
• Office Mobile
• XBOX 360 Elite*

Business Platform

• Dynamics NAV
• Dynamics AX
• Dynamics SL
• Dynamics GP
• Dynamics CRM
• Dynamics Live CRM
• Dynamics Entrepreneur Solution

Application Platform

• SQL Server 2008
• BizTalk Server R2
• .NET Framework
• Visual Studio 2008
• Popfly
• Expression Studio V2*
• Silverligh