Microsoft Corp. officials defended the fact that some of Microsoft's own applications, like Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000, won't run on Windows Server 2003, saying the development focus with Exchange was how to provide the best messaging and collaboration experience.
"We had to focus the engineering effort on getting things like directory replication and performance—essential for Exchange and Windows server—which meant in some cases assuming a new version of Exchange and Windows Server 2003. So the orientation was making sure that as customers moved to the new platform, they got highly performing, reliable and manageable solutions," Bill Veghte, the corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows Server group, told eWEEK in an interview.
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