Microsoft wants servers to drive Office sales
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com November 4, 2004, 3:25 PM PT. This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been enterprise directories for several months, but for many IT managers, ERP (enterprise resource planning
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After nearly six months of beta testing, Microsoft&#39;s Office Live Communications Server 2005 is ready for prime time. The next iteration of Redmond&#39;s enterprise instant messaging product was released to manufacturers
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REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp.  today opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft(R) Office Communications Server 2007, to 2,500 IT professionals.
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Fuelled by strong sales of Windows and Linux systems, the worldwide server market grew to $11.5 billion during the second quarter of 2004, according to numbers released Friday by industry research company IDC. Server shipment revenue was up 6.9 percent from last year's second quarter, and the total number of servers shipped jumped 21 percent during that same period, IDC said.
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Blog: Microsoft adds Ask keyword ad sales to its adManager service for small businesses.
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Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations.
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Microsoft looks to new games, online gaming service to boost sales.
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Along with Vista and Office 2007 announcements, Microsoft recently gave analysts an update on Longhorn - its next generation of server software. As a part of this update, Microsoft announced plans to deliver an enhanced capability in its systems management products.
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Microsoft is now seeking beta testers for its Windows Home Server software, which was unveiled last month at the Consumer Electronics Show and is set to ship before September.
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Microsoft is turning the software into what it hopes will be a one-stop shop for e-mail, voice mail and faxes.
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Microsoft Corp.  started  testing on Monday a new computer server software that allows  corporate customers to make Web-based phone calls through its  Office suite of business software.
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Microsoft says it will be a challenge to convince some consumers to buy its new version of Office.
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Microsoft will expand its Office product lineup next year with a bundle designed to help small businesses manage customer, financial and business processes.
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Microsoft made new versions of Windows and Office available to business customers on Thursday.
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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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Operating systems would be designed for specific server tasks, company says.
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(Article Central) Microsoft will release Virtual Server 2005 next week, a product aimed to help companies effectively gather computing resources.