Microsoft's iWave lineup, new versions of Office, SharePoint Portal Server, Visio et al., will take another in a series of introductory bows at TechEd in a week.
The news out of the Dallas conference will not be so much around what's shipping but what will be shipping "soon," several sources said.
SharePoint Portal Server 2.0, Office 2003, Visio 2003 which were all due in June, are now slated to ship at the end of the summer, the company has said.
iWave is the internal name for a range of "Information Worker" products starting with Office, and expanding to include Visio, InfoPath, Project and other offerings.
In the mail arena, the company quietly shipped Release Candidate 1 of Exchange Server 2003 ("Titanium") to select testers last week, sources said. Sources said Microsoft plans to announce that code drop at TechEd sources said and reiterate its promise to have the product ready this summer. A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed the product is on track to ship this summer but would not comment on RC1 status. Beta 2 of the product went out in January, 2003. At that time, Microsoft said it expected to ship the product mid year.
News source: iTnews Australia
The news out of the Dallas conference will not be so much around what's shipping but what will be shipping "soon," several sources said.
SharePoint Portal Server 2.0, Office 2003, Visio 2003 which were all due in June, are now slated to ship at the end of the summer, the company has said.
iWave is the internal name for a range of "Information Worker" products starting with Office, and expanding to include Visio, InfoPath, Project and other offerings.
In the mail arena, the company quietly shipped Release Candidate 1 of Exchange Server 2003 ("Titanium") to select testers last week, sources said. Sources said Microsoft plans to announce that code drop at TechEd sources said and reiterate its promise to have the product ready this summer. A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed the product is on track to ship this summer but would not comment on RC1 status. Beta 2 of the product went out in January, 2003. At that time, Microsoft said it expected to ship the product mid year.
News source: iTnews AustraliaHere are hardware specifications of the product:
- 3Dlabs VP500SE visual processing unit (this is a bit redesigned version of 3Dlabs P10 VPU);
- 128-bit memory interface in contrast to 256-bit memory interface of higher-end professional graphics cards on the same VPU;
- 64MB DDR SDRAM memory;
- 370MHz RAMDAC;
- AGP 2x/4x with sideband support;
- D-Sub, DVI-A/DVI-D connectors;
- Supports dual-head operation for displays;
It is a bit surprising that the Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect does not provide TV-Out, a feature used by quite a lot of users; looks like Creative fully positions its Graphics Blaster Picture Perfect as a solution for those, who love to edit the pictures taken with a digital camera, not for people, who watch films or play computer games on TV-screen.
But anyway, yeah, the whole 'i' thing criticism is ridiculous. First of all, it's an internal name. Second of all, the 'i' is becoming a lot like how the 'e' was a decade ago.
And now I'm going to bitch. It's just a goddamn letter. It's not Apple's technology. Software is software. Last I checked, Apple doesn't even offer anything close to Microsoft's Office suite, so all the whiners out there can just shove it about ripping Apple off. MS can rename Word to iWord for all I care. You'd be kicked in the head if you suggested they were somehow stealing from an Apple equivalent of the program.
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