Voice and video become common message formats. Exchange 2000 Server makes it easy to attach voice and video to messages. Users discover they never need to be out of touch with their messages and other information. Server will make it simple for users to check their corporate e-mail anywhere they can get an Internet connection, whether they re in an airport kiosk, hotel room, or just about anywhere even if their company uses a firewall. Knowledge workers will become increasingly un-tethered from their information, as wireless connectivity takes off.
Organizations use fewer but bigger servers.
As server applications improve and hardware grows more powerful, corporations don t need as many servers. Microsoft, for example, needed 30 servers to run its 30,000 Exchange mailboxes on Exchange Server 5.5. With Exchange 2000 Server, the company plans to use just two 4-node clusters to support even more users while boosting the storage limit for everyone. Exchange users start to care a lot about the upcoming 64-bit version of Windows, which will arrive sooner than most people expect. Microsoft needs this new version of Windows to push the scalability of Exchange Server even further, into the range of terabytes per server.