Microsoft Offers a Year of Free Software to Louisiana SMBs
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Software giant offers Windows and Office free for a year to small businesses still feeling the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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Microsoft has updated its Office Live Small Business hosted service with new e-commerce and marketing tools to help small businesses sell their products and services online.The new version of Microsoft&#39;s service to help small businesses build a Web presence, unveiled Monday, now includes Store Manager, a tool aimed at helping small businesses build their own e-commerce sites as well as storefronts on eBay.com to sell their products. Store Manager costs US$39.95 per month.Microsoft also has added a beta version of an e-mail marketing service that allows users to send out regular e-mail newsletters, promotions and updates. The service is free for up to 200 e-mails per month during the beta, the company said.Other new features to Office Live Small Business include custom domain name and business e-mail that is available free for one year and $14.95 per year after that. Through the service, businesses can privately register their domain names and brand up to 100 business e-mail accounts, each with 5G bytes of storage, according to Microsoft.Microsoft also has added Web-site customization tools; support for Firefox 2.0 so Mac users can use Office Live Small Business tools and features; and an improved interface and enhanced search ability in Contact Manager, the service&#39;s contact-management system, to the updated service.Office Live Small Business is Microsoft&#39;s Web-based service aimed at giving small businesses a Web site as well as providing basic management, worker collaboration, accounting, and CRM (customer relationship management) capabilities. Microsoft defines small businesses as those with 50 employees or fewer. The service originally was called Office Live but Microsoft recently changed the name.People often mistake Office Live for a Web-based version of Microsoft&#39;s Office productivity suite, one of the reasons Microsoft added &quot;Small Business&quot; to the service&#39;s name. Eventually, Microsoft does plan to offer features of its Office software online as a service, plans Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates discussed Monday at the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference in San Jose, California.Microsoft said Office Live Small Business currently has nearly 600,000 customers in the countries where it is currently available -- the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Japan.More information about Office Live Small Business can be found on the home page for the service.
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Developers of Samba, an open-source version of the file-and-print software used by Windows, will be able to legally incorporate Windows protocols.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of  its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an  apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc.   in the business software market.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O, the world's  largest software maker, and France's Dassault Systemes  DAST.PA have forged a global, 5-year strategic alliance to  deliver Dassault's 3D software to firms using the Microsoft  software platform.
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Microsoft has announced a new promotional program offering free access to some of its development, design and gaming software to students worldwide. The stated goals of the program are to help spark creativity and prepare the next generation for high-tech careers. In addition, the promotion may also help develop a preference for Microsoft  among a younger generation that often leans toward open source alternatives.
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Microsoft Corp. hopes to better meet the back-office needs of smaller businesses with a new take on enterprise resource planning (ERP) software called Dynamics Entrepreneur Solution.
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Businesses don&#39;t have to dump Windows to test drive free or low-price applications whose use may improve the bottom line. Sometimes the big software vendors act like their customers are locked into the proprietary products they sell.
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 19--Jim Hall of St. Paul had a simple idea: Create a free equivalent of MS-DOS, Microsoft's original computer operating system, that anyone could use or modify, for any purpose, with no risk of getting sued by Bill Gates and Co.
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In the U.S., Microsoft will offer training vouchers, migration products and online tech support to NetWare users considering a switch.
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Microsoft is taking its SMB show on the road. The software giant is using recreational vehicles to tour the United States, bringing in partners of Hewlett-Packard and Cisco.
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The company plans to making available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet.
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Businesses don't have to dump Windows to test drive free or low-price applications whose use may improve the bottom line.
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Microsoft is offering a new subscription model to small businesses that will allow them to use the company's software for less cost than the currently available licensing model.
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Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, and France's Dassault Systemes have forged a global, 5-year strategic alliance to deliver Dassault's 3D software to firms using the Microsoft software platform.
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Release makes use of technology from CodeWeavers to let customers run applications from Microsoft.
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XenSource and Virtual Iron, which aim to profit from Xen open-source virtualization software, release free new versions.