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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

Microsoft recruits vendors to integrate Office into business apps

Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to get more independent software vendors to integrate Office front-ends with their own business applications.There already exist a number of these Office-front-ended applications -- which Microsoft has christened Office Business Applications, or OBAs. Some are commercial applications, like the jointly developed Microsoft-SAP Duet. Others...

Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, Office, Office 2007, Resellers, SharePoint Server, Systems integrators

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Microsoft to its hosting partners: Get ready. Here we come

At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week, Microsoft officials are trying to walk the tightrope when it comes to explaining Microsoft's plan to get into the managed services business in a major way.Microsoft officials have made no bones about the fact that Microsoft is planning to offer a...

Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Systems integrators, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Microsoft headed for a services show-down with its hosting partners

Microsoft is on a collision course with its hosting partners.During the past couple of weeks, Microsoft officials have started touting publicly the handful of hosted managed services that Microsoft is selling directly to customers. This week at the NXTcomm 2007 show in Chicago, Microsoft was out hawking its"Microsoft Solution for...

Tags: Channel, Corporate strategy, CRM Live, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server, Network service providers, OEMs, Resellers, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, System builders, Systems integrators, Telecommunications

Blog posts 2007-06-18

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 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

Could Microsoft take a community lesson from Sun?

Microsoft talks a lot about community and wanting to foster/tap into it. But there really is no single, cohesive "Microsoft community," akin to the Linux community. The reasons for this are many and varied. A dominant market player-- vs. an up-and-coming underdog -- seems to inspire less vocal customer/developer...

Tags: Systems integrators, System builders, Resellers, OEMs, Novell, Network service providers, Linux, Corporate strategy, Channel

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Is Microsoft still worthy of the 'Evil Empire' crown?

Forget programmer Paul Grahams "Microsoft is dead" headline. It got the desired effect: Hes gotten links on TechMeme, Slashdot and a lots of other news-starved sites this weekend. But dont dismiss Grahams question as to who if anyone is afraid of Microsoft any more. It wasnt that long...

Tags: Systems integrators, Resellers, OEMs, Novell, Legal, Google, Corporate strategy, Channel, Web 2.0, VOIP, System builders

Blog posts 2007-04-08

Ex-Softie weighs in on how to avoid the dancing Microsoft elephant

Speaking of Microsofts unified-communications strategy, former Softie Alec Saunders has an interesting post on how to "avoid becoming Microsoft roadkill" in the converging VOIP/conferencing/phone market. (Saunders spent nine years at Microsoft in a variety of product management and marketing roles, including the initial launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer. He...

Tags: VOIP, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, Exchange Server, Channel

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Cisco's Chambers claims a three-year lead on Microsoft

Cisco CEO John Chambers has thrown down the gauntlet. At Ciscos Partner Summit in Las Vegas this week, Chambers told the press corps in attendance that he believes Cisco has a three-year lead on Microsoft in the unified communications space. And, according to TechIQ Magazines "VAR Guy," who...

Tags: VOIP, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Corporate strategy, Channel

Blog posts 2007-04-05

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

Arun Nayar for Microsoft Dynamics partner of the year

With my ZDNet blogging colleagues finding ways to mention everyone from Anna Nicole Smith, to porn star Stormy Daniels, in recent blog posts, I figured it was time to find some way to bring some star firepower to "All About Microsoft." Lucky me: I stumbled onto a great...

Tags: Dynamics CRM, Channel, Systems integrators, Dynamics ERP

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Local PC retailers prep Vista system give-aways

Not all of the new PCs preloaded with Windows Vista are going to come from major PC makers like Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Microsoft is trying to make sure local system builders have something new to offer customers, too. The latest iteration of the Microsoft-backed "Buy Local" campaign will kick...

Tags: Vista, Windows client, Corporate strategy, Channel, System builders, OEMs, Systems integrators, Resellers, system builder, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Additional Resources

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Kolodner move boosts open source health IT

System Integrators view of VistADana, get in touch with this system integrator: www.nitconnect.net Ask to speak to the CEO Lior Blik who is very technical. Have him tell you his experiences with integrating Medsphere's VistA with hospital systems, both local and remote.I will try to do thatThanks for...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners

Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-14

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Will cloud computing services get a boost from low IT spending?

Must be easy and quick to doA cloud solution would have to be easy to implement and function very little different from what is being done currently to be feasable.If a company has to go through any kind of major thinking exercise to do it, it may well be less...

Tags: cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Adobe InCopy CS4 6.0.4 (Mac)

powerful editorial authoring tool available as part of an integrated publishing solution that includes Adobe InDesign software. With the look and feel of a word processor, InCopy software enables 100 percent accurate copy-fitting and features a complete editorial toolset that caters to the needs of editorial professionals. With InCopy software,...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Macintosh, Adobe InCopy, Tools & Techniques, Word Processors, Management, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-21

Cisco's accelerating smart grid momentum

Cisco has been at the center of several developments related to the smart grid this week, including a request for federal funds related to a project being spearheaded by the city of San Jose and local utility company PG&E. Like IBM, which earlier this week announced a...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-18