Exchange 2007 has now RTM’d. The TAP is over. I’ve installed all the beta’s and interims to date and I think its a great product. Got me thinking back to when I first heard of Microsoft Exchange (4.0) back in 1994. Its codename was Touchdown and I’ve still got the original double CD pack containing the First Look beta. Back then there was no Outlook client just the standard mail client which was a revamp of the existing MSMail client app, but it was a huge step forward from MS MAil 3.2 server as it had a ‘JET Blue’ based single instance store rather than using the filesystem to store messages. Personally I’ve had a long history with Exchange as we wrote some of the core code for Exchange 2000 here in the UK for the AD interforest integration. Exchange has certainly come a long way in 12 years. More info at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/default.mspx
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I forgot to mention this the other day when I heard about it, so I’m making amends now. The latest RDP client (6.0) is available for XP and W2K3 (not sure if it works on Win2K) and it adds a feature I was really waiting for by adding monitor spanning.
Mstsc /span
Of course I’m a bit sentimental about RDP clients because way back when, I architected and protoyped TSLB, which we then formalised into Panther Server, the first Citrix competitor, beating New Moon to the punch on technology but unfortunately not on marketing.
I was recently asked how we came up with the name Panther, which incidentally got us into a bit of a legal tussle with Apple over their OS X code names. The name came on the spur of the moment when David was on the phone to Microsoft explaining what we had developed and he needed a name there and then and Panther just popped into my head as a temporary codename, but then stuck as the actual product name. Shortly after that Peter Bergler who was then PM for TS in Microsoft came over to the UK for a few days and did a technology review so he could approve it for use in Microsoft presentations, which he did. Incidentally I remember him showing us some cool technology that was forthcoming for Terminal Services which I have never seen implemented yet, even in the most recent Longhorn Server build (5744).
Anyway, you can download it here … http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=26f11f0c-0d18-4306-abcf-d4f18c8f5df9&DisplayLang=en
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