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- Office Live
- A Web e-mail and hosting service from Microsoft for small businesses. Launched in beta in 2006, Office Live features a free ad-supported version and paid subscriptions. It provides...
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- Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product
- Microsoft's next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded.Microsoft Works 9.0 -- which will be the new product's name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature -- might also debut at some point as Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, as many have been...
- Tags: Systems integrators, Office Live, Office, OEMs, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Ozzie spells out the Live platform layers
- Microsoft is -- almost -- ready to explain what Windows Live "the platform" looks like.Last year at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie provided a very high-level (and tough-to-follow) outline of what Microsoft's Live platform was going to look like. This year, Ozzie abandoned the...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Office Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Microsoft to launch Office Communications Server 2007 this fall
- Microsoft will launch the latest versions of its unified communications products -- Office Communications Server OCS 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 client -- sometime this fall.Microsoft is on track to release to manufacturing the two OCS products on Friday, July 27, according to Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes.Raikes, who...
- Tags: Web conferencing, VOIP, Telecommunications, System builders, Speech, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office 2007, Office, OEMs
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Another new Window Live buzzword is born
- There's a new Windows Live buzzword in town: Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned publicly the elusive Windows Live Cloud Infrastructure during his remarks at Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 26 in Redmond.Microsoft has been bucketing and rebucketing its collection of Live services for months, in...
- Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Search, Office Live, Development tools, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Microsoft office live 'Personal' Services: Microsoft Works revisited?
- Microsoft has big hopes and plans for Office Live, its family of Web-based add-ons to Microsoft Office and SharePoint currently aimed at small- to mid-size business customers.One way the Redmondians plan to grow the Office Live business is by expanding its stable of offerings both up and down market, as...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Office, Office Live, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Ballmer: Caught between a software rock and a services hard place
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is not one to make concessions. He has laughed about Linux's prospects. He has pooh-poohed the iPhone. He has called Google bloated.But on July 10, during his keynote address at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Ballmer came the closest I've ever heard him to admitting...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Windows Live, Vista, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house
- On July 1, Microsoft's new fiscal year started with a new slate of Live executives -- or at least a bunch of existing execs with new titles and responsibilities.Brian Arbogast, who had been running Microsoft's Windows Live Developer & Communications Platform for the past few years, is now the Corporate...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office Live, Database, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Microsoft buys two datacenters for $200 million
- Just before its fiscal 2007 came to a close last week, Microsoft snapped up two datacenters from Savvis, an infrastructure provider.Microsoft was the sole customer of the Savvis datacenters that it purchased. The datacenters are located in Santa Clara, Calif.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street over a year ago...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Office Live, CRM Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Microsoft grows its office live family
- It's been a while since the Office Live team has made any public announcements. But behind the scenes, the unit is expanding its stable of offerings to include a number of Microsoft managed services that curretly aren't thought of as "Office Live."Here's a quick Office Live refresher: Office Live, in...
- Tags: Web conferencing, Web 2.0, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office 2007, Office, Google, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Microsoft readies updated version of its Live Meeting conference service
- Some time this fall, Microsoft plans to roll out the third version of its Office Live Meeting conferencing service, company officials announced at TechEd 2007 on June 5.Expected to be dubbed Office Live Meeting 2007, the new release will include a redesigned and simpler user interface; improved training and event...
- Tags: Web video, Web conferencing, VOIP, TechEd 2007, Systems integrators, Office Live, Network service providers, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Microsoft readies new managed services
- A few months back, I speculated on how/when Microsoft would field hosted SharePoint Server, hosted Exchange Serverand hosted Live Communications Server products. My best guess was Microsoft would launch Microsoft-managed versions of these services in the late 2007 or later timeframe.I was surprised to learn today at Microsoft's TechEd 2007...
- Tags: Windows Live, Web 2.0, Virtualization, TechEd 2007, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Exchange Server, CRM Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Microsoft and Google seek partners for hosted productivity apps
- There are more similarities than differences in Microsoft's and Google's approaches to building out their partner ecosystems for their respective hosted productivity suites.Google Apps and Office Live are not head-to-head competitors. Google Apps includes hosted mail, calendar, document and spreadsheets. Office Live includes hosted mail, small-business accounting, workspace and (with...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Systems integrators, SharePoint Server, Resellers, Office 2007, Office Live, Office, Network service providers, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Microsoft rebrands Tahiti collaboration service as 'Shared View'
- Microsoft quietly has made its small-group collaboration service, code-named "Tahiti," available for public download. Version 8.0.2729.1 of what is now known as "Shared View" allows "up to 15 people in different locations" to share whats on their screens. According to text on Microsofts download Web site, the service works...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Office Live
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Microsoft Office in the cloud? Don't hold your breath
- Microsoft watchers and competitors keep waiting for Microsoft to admit that it is going to make Microsoft Office available in the cloud. They just cant believe -- even though Microsoft execs continue to say it -- that Microsoft isnt going to roll out a Web-based version of Office. "No...
- Tags: Office 2007, Web 2.0, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office, Google, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Ballmer: SaaS to have a major impact on businesses, not just consumers
- Microsoft is expecting Web 2.0 and software-as-a-service SaaS to "have as profound an impact on the business market as on the consumer market," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer addressed a group of 80 or so Microsoft-identified "IT Pro community leaders" during a day-long Townhall Event on the Redmond...
- Tags: Search, Research, Windows Live, Web 2.0, Vista, Office Live, Google, CRM Live, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Not all Microsoft 'Lives' are created equal
- This is another branding rant. But Im not going to belabor Microsofts indecision regarding which services to designate "Windows Live and which to brand "MSN." Instead, its just "Live" thats got me -- and, Id wager, customers and partners -- confused. Consider the myriad ways that Microsoft is...
- Tags: Windows Live, Office Live, Corporate strategy, Dynamics ERP, Dynamics CRM, CRM Live, Xbox Live, Channel, Systems integrators, Resellers, Search
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Microsoft to beat the 'software + service' drum on the ERP front
- Another hot button at this weeks Microsoft Convergence conference is expected to be the whole "software plus services" -- as opposed to "software as a service" SaaS -- push that Microsoft has been espousing, as of late. On the ERP side of the Microsoft house, "S+S" has a couple...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., ERP, Microsoft Windows, CRM, software
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Excel Services as a Google Apps competitor? Hmm
- TechCrunch is trumpeting as "confirmed" scoop" the fact that Microsoft is building a Google Apps competitor that has as an anchor "Excel Services." Im more than a little skeptical of this positioning, even though a Microsoft developer characterized Excel Services as a product that "will probably be competing with...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Groupware, TechCrunch, Google Inc., Microsoft Excel, Excel Services, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
- Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsofts Windows Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources close to the company. Irving, a 15-year Microsoft veteran, is in charge of the back-end Live platform -- the datacenter, technical operations, advertising intelligence, security, identity, VOIP, mobile and application...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Office Live, Windows Live, Xbox Live
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Could a startup beat Microsoft and Google to market with a 'cloud OS'?
- A Swedish, venture-backed startup believes it can beat both Microsoft and Google in bringing a "cloud OS" product to market. A "Cloud OS" is what Microsoft officials have described as the back-end infrastructure that will power its growing family of Live services. And -- in spite of repeated public...
- Tags: Linux, Web 2.0, Office, Corporate strategy, Office Live, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
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