We’ve all been waiting for it for some time now, Microsoft announced the release of Exchange 2010 Beta last week.

Exchange 2010 was built from the ground up with Software + Services in mind with more than 5 million users are already enjoying the benefits of Exchange 2010 as a service today.

Exchange 2010 will help organizations reduce costs, protect communications and delight e-mail users with capabilities to do the following:

• Lower costs with more flexible deployment and management options.
• Protect information and meet compliance requirements with the new e-mail archive.
• Improve user productivity with the ultimate inbox experience.

Exchange 2010 brings many new and exciting features to the table, for an overview of these, check out this video on Technet Edge

To download the Exchange 2010 Beta, click here