Office 2010 will start rolling out to a wider cross-section of testers beginning this July, based on Microsoft officials.Firm execs are telling attendees of this week;s Microsoft TechEd 2009 conference to expect the very first Local community Technologies Preview (CTP) test develop of Workplace 2010 in July, as rumored for a while now. (Till these days,
Office Home And Business 2010 Key, the only timing Microsoft was offering officially about the Office 2010 CTP was that it was due within the third calendar quarter of this year.)The first CTP — which Microsoft is planning to make available to thousands of invited testers in waves — will include as part of Wave 1 attendees of the TechEd conference. The Office 2010 client and SharePoint Server 2010 products, as well as the Web-based versions of several Workplace 2010 applications (known as Workplace Web Applications) all will be part of the CTP bits.Microsoft has been testing Workplace 2010, the family of products formerly known as Workplace 14, via a private alpha test since January 2009.Microsoft has said there will be a broad public beta of Office 2010 some time between the tech preview and release to manufacturing. RTM is slated for the very first half of 2010. Microsoft has not dicslosed how many betas are planned or the timing of the beta/betas for Workplace 2010.At TechEd this week,
Microsoft Office Standard 2007, Microsoft also is sharing a few more details about the next version of Microsoft;s database, codenamed “Kilimanjaro.” That product will be named SQL Server 2008 R2 when it ships in the first half of 2010. A Neighborhood Technology Preview (CTP) check create of that product is due early within the second half of 2009. (I;m betting around July,
Office 2010 Key, just like Workplace 2010.)Microsoft is touting “self-service business enterprise intelligence” as 1 of the biggest selling points of SQL Server 2008 R2. But SQL Server 2008 R2 also is going include Microsoft;s “Bulldog” master data management technology as part of it. (Yes,
Office Pro Plus 2010 Key, Microsoft did say back in October that MDM would not be part of the Kilimanjaro release. But now they are admitting that it will be.) The working (and possibly final) name for Bulldog is Master Data Services. Microsoft officials will be showing off Master Data Services at the TechEd show this week,
Office 2007 Ultimate Key, and detailing how it will “light up” when used with Workplace 2010.