With Microsoft Exchange 2013 from CDS Office Technologies, you will benefit from the latest improvements to enhance your employees’ mobility and productivity with this popular messaging and collaboration platform. For businesses using earlier versions of Exchange, the improvements, particularly for users of Outlook Web App (OWA) will be significant.

Take a look at some of the additional new features you’ll get with Exchange 2013 and see how they compare to your current version.

Exchange 2003 / Exchange 2007 / Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013
OWA Design / Basic or “lite” version only / Premium version with drag and drop, right-click, spell-check
Premium OWA (“full version”) for Internet Explorer only / Mailbox search
Preview pane,
Conversation view
Premium support for Explorer, Safari
Firefox, and Chrome / Redesigned look and feel in Windows 8 style, optimized for touchscreen.
Automatically adjusts for desktop, table, or phone layouts.
Inline composition of new emails, appointments, contacts and tasks eliminates pop-up.
OWA Offline Access / Not Available / Not Available / Not Available / Available for HTML5 Browsers
OWA single page view / Not available / Available for Internet Explorer only / Available for all browsers. Users scroll through inbox on one page / Available for all browsers. Users scroll through inbox on one page
OWA Calendar / Basic calendar view / Views for daily, weekly, and work week. / View multiple calendars side-by-side. / New “month” and “agenda” views. Ability to see view multiple calendars in same overlay view.
Instant Messaging support / Not available / Not available / Integrated Instant Messaging with presence in Outlook and OWA / Integrated Instant Messaging with presence in Outlook and OWA
Conversation view / Only with Outlook 2007 / Available in Outlook / Available in Outlook, OWA and mobile phone / Available in Outlook, OWA and mobile phone
Advanced inbox search / Outlook only / Outlook and OWA / Outlook and OWA / Outlook and OWA
View shared calendars / Outlook only / Outlook and OWA / Outlook, OWA and mobile phone / Outlook, OWA and mobile phone
Third Party Mail Apps / Not available / Not available / Outlook Social Connector to integrate friend feeds from integrate LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking directly into Outlook. / Integration of Bing Maps, LinkedIn, and other third-party applications directly into email to minimize the clicks required for employees access information. Microsoft Marketplace supports wide variety of applications and enterprise-specific applications.
Unified Contacts / Not available / Not available / Outlook Social Connector to integrate contacts from social networks (multiple entries). / Integrate your contacts from LinkedIn, Facebook, and other locations, for simplified contact management and elimination of duplicates.
Contact Search / Basic contact search functionality. / Nickname cache (autocomplete) / Outlook Social Connector allows searching across contacts from social networks. / Fast-search technology across personal contacts, GAL, and social networks. Phonetic search and enhanced nickname search.
Infrastructure / Runs on 32-bit hardware
Single Copy Cluster (SCC) creates single point of failure / Runs on 64-bit hardware for faster performance / High availability offered through Database Availability Group (DAG) / Update (rewritten) data store with improved indexing and searching