Microsoft announces ship dates for new versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio

Posted by Mike Snyder on June 7, 2005  |  Comments (0)

Every Microsoft CRM customer and partner knows that the next version of Microsoft CRM will be released to manufacturing (RTM) in the fourth quarter of 2005. Today Microsoft announced a ship date of November 7th for several other long-awaited products:

• SQL Server 2005
• Visual Studio 2005
• BizTalk Server 2006

Combined with a new release of Microsoft CRM, this will be a busy fourth quarter! Visual Studio 2005 will include the new .NET Framework 2.0 (code-named "Whidbey"), and SQL Server 2005 will include numerous feature and performance improvements. Of course, the current version of Microsoft CRM 1.2 uses the .NET Framework 1.1 and SQL Server 2000. So what will these new releases of the .NET Framework and SQL Server mean for the next release of Microsoft CRM?

We're guessing nothing.

We expect that the next version of Microsoft CRM will not take advantage of the new .NET Framework and SQL Server features right away...but hopefully we'll know the official answer to this question in the coming weeks. Again, we expect major announcements about the next version of Microsoft CRM this July at the Microsoft Partner Conference.