MarketWatch: SaaS - Understanding the Back End
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| Start-ups are emerging on the back of the movement making use of open
| source and the open source inspired AppExchange from Salesforce.com.
| Google and Yahoo are pushing their SaaS word-processing, spreadsheet,
| and related productivity tools.
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| [...]
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| Recent documents relating to Microsofts open source patent agreement
| with Novell suggest it is thinking about making Office available
| as a software service over the internet.
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/070611/20/13ps5.html
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No Demand For Browser-Based Microsoft Office?
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| Raikes said the browser-based application space is extremely
| important to watch, but there is not a lot of demand now for
| Microsoft Office in the cloud.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070427/33730_id.html?.v=1
Office 2003 to get security upgrade
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| Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 will be focused on security, said
| Joshua Edwards, a technical product manager for Office at Microsoft.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-6179672.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
Dumping Office for Google Apps
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| Google has a friend in Disney, and that could leave Microsoft screaming
| like a jilted lover.
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http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/02/07/dumping-office-for-google-apps/
Microsoft prunes its Windows Live line-up
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| What to make of these changes? Is Microsoft starting to get its Windows
| Live branding house in order? Is the company simply beginning a long
| overdue "Windows Live" purge, much like the quiet .Net naming purge
| conducted a few years back? Or is Microsoft actually starting to kill
| off actual services and not just ill-chosen names?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=391
Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
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| Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows
| Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources
| close to the company.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296
Is Windows Live dying?
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| Over the last year, Microsoft's Windows Live service lineup has
| grown exponentially. At one point months ago, it seemed clear
| that every service Microsoft brought online would fall under the
| Live brand, but lately the trend seems to be moving slowly in
| the opposite direction. What's happening to Windows Live?
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/2/20/7154
Sources: Several Windows Live Projects Halted
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| Microsoft's Windows Live desktop search project has been
| shelved "indefinitely," although not much reasoning has been
| given as to the reason for its demise.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Sources_Several_Windows_Live_Projects_Halted/1163715423
Microsoft Office Live migration is adding insult to injury
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| On January 29, Microsoft posted to the Office Live blog a status update
| re: the migration. The news isn't good.
|
| Office Live logoBeta testers are still potentially "months" away fromb
| eing migrated to the final version of their Office Live services.
| Functionality like backup and restore isn't going to work until
| their accounts are migrated. And Microsoft will give testers only
| a 24-hour heads-up when they are set to be migrated. During that
| 24-hour period, users won't be able to make changes to their
| Office Live sites.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=243
Office Live: Better Off Dead?
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| Last month I killed Office Live in an act of self defense, after
| repeated access problems and attempts to move my domain to another
| registrar. Judging from the comments to that post, there's an Office
| Live killing spree going on. Not surprisingly, Microsoft wants to put
| an end to the wanton killing.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/office_live_better_off_dead.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ybsz2o
Microsoft profit on slide
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| Some analysts are looking for any signs of improvement from
| Microsoft's internet division, which continues to lose market
| share in web search to Google.
|
| Microsoft's online services group saw revenue fall for the last
| four quarters and posted a loss in the past three quarters while
| it shifted to a new internet advertising platform and overhauled
| the company's web properties.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21109542%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Microsoft Bug Pumps Up Web Ad Costs
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| Microsoft Corp. said Friday it fixed a glitch in its online
| advertising platform that overcharged some merchants by hundreds,
| and in some cases thousands, of dollars.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070223/microsoft_adcenter.html?.v=1
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