This PDC we made some bug announcements as a company (Sparkle, Longhorn, VS etc.), as well as some related to Exchange and Monad:
- We have deprecated and cut some APIs, full list is available through this blog entry at the Exchange blog.
- Bob Muglia (VP of Windows Server) put Monad on the roadmap as appearing in 2006
- Exchange announced that Monad will be the way that users manage Exchange through script and cmdline
- Exchange announced that Exchange cmdlets will replace our WMI providers and CDOExM (see previous link for more informaiton)
- Instead of using things like CDO, WebDAV, the IW and PIM access will be available through web services. This stuff is really cool. We demo’d how in a 4-5 lines you can emulate what Outlook is doing through web services. As a sidebar, I have a pet project to use these APIs to build a cmdline mail app in Monad… good demonstration of both worlds!
The feedback was good, and reaffirmed our choices. Karim and John were expecting some tomatoes, but none were thrown . In fact, folks cheered the direction we’re taking. As always, let us know how we can improve our APIs and developer interfaces, we’re listening.