DVD-only distribution planned for Exchange 12
ENT News | at | by Mike
The distribution media for Exchange 12 will be exclusively DVD, Microsoft announced in a blog posting Tuesday. "Exchange will likely be one of the first products to make the switch to only DVD, but we aren't doing this without good reason and without carefully weighing the pros and cons," KC Lemson, a program manager with the Exchange Server team, wrote on the Exchange blog.
The main reason to switch to DVD is the massive text-to-speech engines required for unified messaging, which is a key new feature of Exchange 12. "These engines will allow you to call up your server on your phone and have it read your e-mail and appointments over the phone to you," Lemson wrote.