Summary of Microsoft roadmap announcements made the most recent six months.Includes features of each major product for developer community. Shows how developers can become involved in early adoption programs. Also provides conference dates.
2. NOTE This is not the official roadmap, but a collection of the public announcements made about upcoming Microsoft releases. All features and dates subject to change.
4. Internet Explorer 9 Streamlined design Pinned Sites Download Manager Enhanced tabs New Tab page Search in the address bar Notification Bar Add-on Performance Advisor Hardware acceleration Tracking Protection ActiveX Filtering Windows 7 Desktop Integration
5. Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview Available Now http://www.IETestDrive.com HTML 5 Hardware-accelerated HTML5 spanning all graphics, text, audio and video CSS3 Gradients on background images CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Expanding support for emerging standards See http://www.html5labs.com
6. Silverlight 5 XAML Debugging with breakpoints for binding debugging Implicit data templates for easy UI reuse Double (and multi) click support GPU-accelerated XNA-compatible 3D and immediate-mode 2D API Low-latency sound effects and WAV support Real operating system windows and multi-display support Significant performance improvements, fixes Much more http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-5-beta/
7. Kinect SDK Spring 2011 Robust Skeletal Tracking Advanced Audio Capabilities XYZ depth camera
8. Windows Phone vNext New developer tools in May – Fall Release Upgrades existing Phones and new Phones Application multitasking Audio and file transfer Fast application switching Access to camera, motion sensor library IE 9 (HTML 5)
9. Surface 2 No cameras PixelSense gives an LCD display the power to recognize fingers, hands and objects placed on the screen, including more than 50 simultaneous touch points Designed for commercial environments 40” full high-definition (HD) 1080p screen SDK - Summer
10. Windows vNext System on a Chip (SoC) architecture ARM-based systems from partners NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments Microsoft Office to support ARM Intel, AMD works on low-power SoC designs on the x86
13. Windows Azure + Windows Phone Windows Azure Toolkit for WP7 http://watoolkitwp7.codeplex.com
14. Windows Azure - 1 Currently available as beta VM Role Elevated Privileges Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket DataMarketis Section 508 compliant (for governments) To be FISMA compliant App Market Azure Connect
15. Windows Azure - 2 Available Now - Windows Azure SDK Update - April Web Deployment Tool CTP - Windows Azure Traffic Manager CTP - Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming For Silverlight, iOS, Android Honeycomb clients
16. Azure AppFabric Access Control Service v2 Shipped Supports identity providers: Microsoft, Facebook, Google, ADFS Windows Azure AppFabric Caching ships May 2011
17. Fabrikam Shipping SaaS ISV Demo Complete SaaS ISV demo scenario for the Windows Azure Platform http://www.fabrikamshipping.com/ Key Features: Showcases all of the services in the current Windows Azure platform: Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and the Windows Azure AppFabric (including ACS) Demonstrates how to integrate external PaaS components e.g. PayPal integration for payment capabilities and pre-approvals for automatic billing
20. Windows 7Windows Server 2008 R2Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Shipped Feb 2011 Hyper-V Server Shipped April 2011 Dynamic Memory Remote FX .NET 4 on Server Core
21. SQL Server ‘Denali’ Visual Studio IDE code named ‘Juneau’ ‘Always On’ New browser-based reporting tool code named “Crescent” CTP 1 Available Now http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/product-info/future-editions.aspx
22. SQL Server Training Kit SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit (January 2011 Update) http://msdn.microsoft.com/learn SQL Server ‘Denali’ www.expeditiondenali.com
23. Windows Server HPC SP1 (Azure burst) – Currently Available Connects technical computing resources to cloud computer nodes Windows for Supercomputers http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=41&SrcFamilyId=ACDE41C6-153A-4181-912E-78024FCC86DA&SrcDisplayLang=en&u=http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/4/6/B46F065D-B682-464E-82D1-404B241EC86D/WindowsHPCBurstToAzureApps.docx
25. Office 2010 Service Pack Mid Summer Each team announces feature updates on team blogs Changes to Office and SharePoint products are cumulative. Any updated packages we ship include the cumulative and public updates to date. Products include: Office 2010 suites Project 2010 Visio 2010 Office 2010 servers Office Web Apps Search Server 2010 SharePoint 2010 Products, FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Free Support for Compatibility
26. Office 365 Beta shipped April Beta Dev Training Kit ISVs can list applications in O365 Marketplace today http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/gg153540.aspx Development Guide for SharePoint Online http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=4387e030-73dc-48e7-ac95-abc043b9335a Server-side application must run in sandbox BCS support comes after launch and before major vNext Client Object Model for Silverlight, .NET, Javascriptapps
28. Dynamics AX 2012 Beta – April 2011 Release – August 2011 Unified Natural Models Role Tailored Experience
29. Dynamics Just Shipped Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 Integration with Microsoft Project Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 – Jan 2011 Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 – Dec 2010 Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 – May 2011
31. Visual Studio 2010 SP1 In Beta Includes ‘Go Live’ license IntelliTraceF5 support for 64-bit and SharePoint Silverlight 4 Tools Help Viewer Win7-specific MFC APIs to support use of Direct2D, DirectWrite, and Windows Animation Technologies. Unit Testing on .NET 3.5. Performance Wizard for Silverlight VB Compiler runtime switch
35. Metro Training Kits – Available under NDA Silverlight and SharePoint Developer Kit Office 365 v3 Developer Kit SharePoint and Azure Developer Primer v1 CRM 2011 Developer Kit v2
36. Metro Live Meetings - NDA SQL Server ‘Denali’ Topics April: Introduction to SQL Server Code Name “Denali” Introduction to SQL Server Code Name “Denali” AlwaysOn Upgrading to SQL Server Code Name “Denali” Managing Files and Documents with SQL Server “Denali”
37. Metro Nominations Open Silverlight 5 Office 365 SQL Server ‘Denali’ Dynamics CRM 2011 ASP. NET MVC 3 OData WebMatrix Metro Nominations Pending Visual Studio vNext Windows Server HPC vNext Technical Computing
38. Sign up for Metro Must have project actively adopting emerging technology Must have signed Non Disclosure Agreement Contact bruce.kyle@microsoft.com to get one Self nominationhttp://connect.microsoft.com/metro Sponsor: Bruce Kyle or your architect evangelist Metro is hosted on Connect site, but offers more than bits and a forum. Get support up to 180 days following release Get briefings, labs, dev training, deep dives, architecture sessions Get closer connection to product team Give permission to tout your app Approval process
41. Tech-Ed North America May 16 – 19 Atlantahttp://northamerica.msteched.com/ Worldwide Partner Conference July 10 – 14 Los Angeles http://www.digitalwpc.com/ PDC Sept 13 - 16 Anaheim http://microsoftpdc.com SharePoint Conference Oct – 3-6 Anaheim http://www.mssharepointconference.com/