John Merrill – First Look at Exchange 12 | Charles

DevilsRejection
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I like how he said "we will let you access your data very easyly with OWA"

now it makes it ever so clear why microsoft purchased foldershare.

for people like me, who wouldn't need the power of an exchange server, just a simple user, who still wants to have all my contacts, emails, calenders avilable online, will a similar interface be developed for hotmail? which i hope gets changed to live.com

right now for me atleast it's abc@gmail.com i would love a abc@live.com

great ui, and as you said, this can be used as a replacement to outlook.

efortier

man, your office looks like a warzone!

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

The new version of hotmail really is a lot like the interface for OWA.

Although it's not quite as fast as that.

j0217995

Robert,

Thanks for the great video, it was very interesting to see Exchange 12 and OWA. Looking forward to it.

Was wondering if either you or Joh Merrill or someone from the Exchange could answer the question about Exchange12 and other products requiring 64-bit. I know it was discussed in a post in the Coffeehouse. Interesting that it is currently on Slashdot as well.

TravisOwens
Life is short, drink hard.

DevilsRejection wrote:
will a similar interface be developed for hotmail?

Microsoft is launching a totally new Hotmail and it will look a lot like Outlook/OWA hybrid. You can already see some previews at
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/msn_kahuna_preview.asp

CannedSoda

He said OWA for Exch2003 was the first AJAX app. First AJAX app for Microsoft or from anyone? Wasn't it in Ray Ozzie's email about how OWA began AJAX but really didn't expand upon that?

mawcc
Make it so

I think he said OWA for Exchange 2000, not 2003. I remember it was already quite good, and that was waaaay before everybody started talking about AJAX.

Simo
With me it's a full-time job.

CannedSoda wrote:
He said OWA for Exch2003 was the first AJAX app. First AJAX app for Microsoft or from anyone?

mawcc wrote:
I think he said OWA for Exchange 2000, not 2003. I remember it was already quite good, and that was waaaay before everybody started talking about AJAX.

OWA for Exchange 2000 literally was the grand-daddy of AJAX. AJAX leverages the XmlHttp object for communication with the server "in the background". The XmlHttp object in IE was developed primarily for OWA.

A few articles MSDN later and a team I worked on started using it for internal corporate web applications. The Soap wizard & web behavior shipped and things became simple. Skip forward a few years, an XMLHttp implementation goes into Firefox/Mozilla and Google picks up the stick and runs with it.

There's guys on the team I used to work with that regularly deconstruct the gmail / gmap code. The Google developers seem to have learnt a lot tricks to really push the performance.

malmer

mawcc wrote:
I think he said OWA for Exchange 2000, not 2003. I remember it was already quite good, and that was waaaay before everybody started talking about AJAX.

With WebOS back in 1999 we were doing AJAX and browser client side app code before OWA. Allthough we didn't use XmlHttp at the time since it didn't exist afik, we had an API quite similiar to Windows Forms or Java Swing. Netscape 4 compatability was painful... Smiley

Anyways, the things we're seeing now is roughly what we had before the "dot-com death".