Microsoft roadmap leaks for Office 15, IE 10 and more key products

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Microsoft roadmap leaks for Office 15, IE 10 and more key products

By Mary Jo Foley | April 12, 2012, 5:31am PDT

Summary: Screen shots of a Microsoft product roadmap for partners have leaked to the Web. Here are the key take-aways.

Microsoft has provided some of its partners with a roadmap for next versions of many of its key products, including Office 15, IE 10 and Windows Phone, and parts of that document have leaked to the Web.

One of the partners who received the roadmap, Maarten Visser, CEO of Meetroo — a new SharePoint and mobility startup — recently posted screen shots from it and tweeted links to them.

“For who want to know: I got the roadmap from the Microsoft Partner Network, where it can be downloaded without logon,” Visser tweeted a week ago.

Visser gave me permission to embed his screen shots on my blog. I can verify this roadmap, which is marked confidential, was distributed by Microsoft externally to some of its partners and bears a 12/22/11 date. As Visser indicated, the document is/was not password-protected by Microsoft (for whatever reason).

Here are the two shots Visser posted from the roadmap:

And here’s the key to what the symbols mean that are on the roadmap:

Read the complete story with additional explanations at http://www.zdnet.com...-products/12417

Steve