Microsoft is Silent on SharePoint 2009

Microsoft seems silent on the release of the next version of SharePoint believed to be SharePoint 2009 as part of Office 14. While I am pretty excited on the release of this version and the more my colleagues (sorry internal communication) talk about the things that might be included in it, the more I want Microsoft to release publicly their plans on SharePoint 2009.

Given that they have already announced Windows Azure, their cloud computing vertical market and the release of SharePoint Service Pack 2, I feel that SharePoint 2009 might be pushed to SharePoint 2010 instead to add features for seamless activity with Windows Azure? Also, since SharePoint Service Pack 2 is going to be released sometime in April, it's possible that there is no need to rush the release of SharePoint 2009.

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