On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:21:44 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>__/ [ John Locke ] on Monday 23 April 2007 21:57 \__
>
>>>And something that Microsoft does not want people to know, also from
>>>PCWorld:
>>>
>>>Microsoft's Software Services Struggle
>>>
>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Microsoft plans to make expanding its software as a service (SAAS)
>>>| strategy a priority in the next 12 months, but the company continues
>>>| to suffer an image problem as it struggles to prove that it can
>>>| compete in this new services market.
>>>`----
>>>
>>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070405/tc_pcworld/130412
>>
>> When will they learn ? They now want to expand into hosted services ?
>> They haven't even fixed Vista yet and they're going off in aonther
>> tangent. There are several comapnies including Google already doing
>> this. We don't need Microsoft.
>
>Don't forget something that Microsoft will never get right in SaaS:
>
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>| IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition also uses the open source Lucene indexing
>| library to provide cross-platform full text indexing.
>`---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061213/0194295.html
>
>Businesses think ahead. In recent months, Microsoft has been loud and
>aggressive when facing Google in the enterprise. They see Google taking
>their business, not just foreseeing it. IBM's revenues are soaring as well.
>Microsoft published its figures today (I think), so we'll soon see how they
>do outside the world of the cash cows (whose days are seeminglu numbered).
Google, IBM & Yahoo. That's a pretty awesome force to be reckoned
with, even for Microsoft.
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