Microsoft targets midmarket with Navision update
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Microsoft Corp. is building on its 2002 buy of Danish business application developer Navision A/S with the release Monday of its first major product built on the Navision software suite.
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is offering the latest iteration of its 64-bit computing platform, announcing the release of beta software for PCs and servers. The release marks the next step in the software giant's efforts to address the needs of high-end customers.
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Software maker has its eye on consumers who might be ready to make the switch from Windows.
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New technologies from Microsoft will help advertisers better target ads to content in search, video, on Web pages and public kiosks.
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Changes aim to address Google antitrust concerns. Also: Redmond talks for first time about when service pack will arrive.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Tuesday it plans to release the first major update to its  Windows Vista operating system early next year.
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Microsoft made new versions of Windows and Office available to business customers on Thursday.
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Microsoft Corp., world&#39;s largest software maker, announced yesterday that it will release the next version of Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, in the second half of 2006.
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Business Objects has released the second of three planned versions of its Crystal Decisions business intelligence software suiteÂ aimed at midmarket users.
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(InfoWorld) - Connectivity is a key theme running through Microsoft's Dynamics development work as the vendor begins to meld its disparate business applications families into more of a single integrated platform. Microsoft is due to release a flurry of announcements Monday at its Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego. "It will be the biggest news day we've ever had," said James Utzschneider, general manager of Dynamics marketing at Microsoft. At the heart of the Dynamics announcements will be the vendor's attempts to improve different levels of connectivity, for instance, between employees and the business processes in the applications they use or better connecting a company via its software with its external community of customers, partners and suppliers. One way of making it easier for staff to use the Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications is to improve the user interface. Microsoft will be showing off its RoleTailored UI which brings the look-and-feel of its Windows Vista operating system and its Office 2007 desktop suite to Dynamics. The intention is that RoleTailored will become the common user interface across all four of Microsoft's Dynamics families -- NAV, AX, GP and SL. Some of the work that went into RoleTailored was previously known by the Fenway code name. The new UI will first appear in Dynamics NAV 5.0 due out later this month, then in Dynamics GP 10.0 and Dynamics SL 7, which are both on track to ship in June. Microsoft began shippingÂ Dynamics AX 4.0Â in June 2006 and expects to release Dynamics AX 5.0 in the first half of 2008. Microsoft is adopting "a fairly conservative approach" to bringing its Dynamics offerings together by taking incremental steps to share code across the application families, Utzschneider said. "What you're seeing Microsoft doing is starting to form a single platform in order to serve business applications' needs," said Yvonne Genovese, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. The platform will consist of Dynamics NAV at the low end serving the needs of a maximum of 50 users and Dynamics AX at the high end, she added. Microsoft will continue to come out with new versions of Dynamics GP and SL, but those largely U.S.-focused products won't make major contributions to the future Dynamics platform. Microsoft mostly acquired its business software through the purchases of Great Plains Software and Navision completed in April 2001 and in July 2002 respectively. Genovese believes that Microsoft didn't appreciate the complexity of the business applications market at the time of the acquisitions and it's been a hard transition for the company. "They're just now growing up," she said. "They're in their late teenage years as a business applications company" versus older, more established players like SAP and Oracle. Genovese views the midmarket for business applications largely as a vendor invention. What she's hearing from customers of all sizes, including those with annual revenue in excess of $2 billion, is that they're looking for business applications that don't require them to invest in their own IT development and that offer a broad range of functionality and have a predictable cost structure. "Microsoft is a prime candidate to be a leader in that market," she said, provided the company can execute on its strategy. Â
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TechWeb - Adaptive Planning ships an upgrade of its namesake software for midsize companies.
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Here&#8217;s the Windows Live Local blog on the upgrades to Bird&#8217;s Eye.   Gary Price summarizes the upgrades:  What&#8217;s New? +  Improved Tools to Navigate  &#8220;Birds Eye&#8221; Imagery Using an &#8220;inset map.&#8221; (Much easier!) Also, kudos on the next new feature that also makes Birds Eye imagery more user friendly.  You can now drag to the end of [...]
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Microsoft says it plans to broadly release the long-awaited update to its flagship Windows operating system, dubbed &#39;Longhorn&#39;, in 2006.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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Microsoft is expanding a plan to draw mainframe customers to Windows for high-end applications. Under a program with the internal code name Mission Critical Microsoft, the company is trying to extend its current
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Microsoft seems to be on track to release the next version of Windows on schedule.
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Microsoft is on the move again. As it has in the past, the software giant is trying to elbow aside rivals who have pioneered new markets.