'Also upgrading to Exchange 2007 can be very expensive, requiring upgrades to server hardware and software and increased licensing costs.'

A small increase in functionality (often to be done with a couple of lines of code on an external dll) and a vast increase in cost.

MS have upgraded a small icon on your desktop, please consult MS sales about redecorating your whole house and that of any poor bugger that looks through the window...

Just one rather small niggle in that wonderful assumption: it's an assumption. I will believe that Exchange <fill in future version> will do >fill in desired feature of the month> when I have seen it work somewhere else.

You see, there's a small little clue in all of this: if you're really that interested in rock solid resilience you will test, uat and pilot - and that only after "test" has indicated that the features marketing is seducing the golf club level with actually exist. Other platforms have offered this for years, so it's nice to see they're yet again promising to catch up.

Side note: if you're interested in rock solid email there's a small question what the heck you're doing with Exchange anyway, but that's answered by the embarrassing disassembled state of any other offering out there. No other solution offers the combination, at that level functionality. E ve n..thou..gh it's as ye.t h.as to earn a............boutasynchronousoperationssoit doesn't st..alls the desktop and then has to catchupanddoitallatonce. It's so functional people overlook all that.

However, as Windows users we know the value of Microsoft promises.

And delivery dates.

And interoperability

And backwards compatibility

And..

...to say that Lookout/Exchange is the biggest POS that Mickey$haft have ever made, but it's certainly up there.

That honour, IMO, goes firmly to Windwoes Mobile, whose greatest claim to fame is that it makes Fista look fantastic.

Yadda yadda yadda (C) Microsoft PR.

We've heard that bull for every single MS product release for the past twenty years. It may even be right, but it won't keep Exchange 2010 from being an unreliable, virus-spreading turd.

The only issue Exchange 2010 is going to address is the dip of the failing MS server market - by requiring more servers to do the same, unreliable job.

Bet you used FartFux to post that comment.