Microsoft Top 10 Challenges for 2005

Directions on Microsoft has published the Top 10 challenges for next year and beyond.

1. Where Does Microsoft Want to Go Today?
2. Acquisitions That Help
3. Security, Security, Security
4. Make the PC the Home Entertainment Hub
5. Maintenance: Value for the Money
6. Put a Lid on Open Source
7. Win Over Developers with Longhorn
8. Turn the Corner with Xbox 2
9. When I'm 64
10. Play Well with Others

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For developers in 2005, the release of Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) and SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) will be very important. Longhorn is still far away and will certainly come back in the Top 10 list for 2006, 2007, ...