From Computer World: Microsoft has released a public preview of Exchange 2019, the on-premises email server software the company will start selling later this year.
First promised in September 2017, when Microsoft announced that sneak peeks of perpetual versions of the Office applications - Word, Excel, Outlook and the like - and Office-centric servers would land in the middle of the following year, Exchange 2019 is set to launch sometime this fall.
Microsoft has already issued previews for Office 2019 for Windows and the Mac, although both betas have been aimed at commercial customers, not consumers.
Like the previews of the productivity suite's applications, the one for Exchange 2019 is a snapshot of features that have long been live in the Azure-based version that Microsoft offers within the Office 365 business and enterprise plans. In that regard, the Redmond, Wash. developer's on-premises software deserves a label of second-class, since it can never match the functionality of what's delivered to Office 365 subscribers.
Microsoft didn't bother hiding its preference of Office 365 over on-premises, sounding almost apologetic as it introduced the preview of Exchange 2019. "We strongly believe Office 365 delivers the best and most cost-effective experience to our customers, but we understand that some customers have reasons to remain on-premises," the company's Exchange team said in a Tuesday post to a company blog.
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