Four years later than planned – maybe that’s how long it will take to make it secure?
Microsoft has updated its roadmap for Exchange Server and revealed that the next version will arrive in 2025 – four years later than planned. A post opens with a reminder of Microsoft’s previous promise to deliver a new subscription-only version of Exchange in late 2021, then details the many security improvements made to the messaging server during the same year – including plenty in response to the four zero-day vulns that attackers used to plunder data from US-based defense contractors, law firms, and infectious disease researchers. Microsoft’s post doesn’t admit that those efforts were the reason it didn’t deliver the planned late 2021 update, instead stating the product’s developers « continue to focus on security » but are « now also ready to share our long-term roadmap for Exchange Server.
