Microsoft offers subscription licensing for small businesses
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Microsoft is offering a new subscription model to small businesses that will allow them to use the company&#39;s software for less cost than the currently available licensing model.
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NEW YORKâHewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. are taking to the road with a new initiative to bring technology to small and midsize businesses in remote parts of the country.
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New Simple Start Edition accounting software targets small businesses still using pencil and paper.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has added the ability for subscribers of its Office Live small-business hosted service to purchase paid-search advertising from Ask.com from directly within the service. Now small businesses using the Office Live service can use the adManager feature of the product, which is in beta, to purchase search-based keyword advertising from Ask Sponsored Listings, Microsoft said. Customers already can purchase paid-search advertising from the Microsoft's MSN network and Live Search from within the product. Ask Sponsored Listings is an automated, open-auction system that allows for the purchase and management of pay-per-click and contextual advertising campaigns on a publisher network that includes Ask.com. According to the site, 48,000 advertisers use the system to bid on more than 25 million keywords. Last week at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, a company manager said Microsoft would begin adding the ability to purchase ads for third-party search engines to Office Live, which gives small businesses tools for building a Web site as well as Web-based e-mail, instant messaging, collaboration, and customer relationship management, in the next two months. Ask.com is the first such partnership. Microsoft unveiled Office Live in November 2005 as part of a broad strategy to offer more hosted and Web-based services, and the company has high hopes for the offering. Last week at the WPC, Microsoft Chief COO Kevin Turner said that the company expects it to eventually become on of its top-selling products, ranking near the top of the heap with the Windows client OS and Office desktop suite.
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The new Open Value Subscription program gives additional software license options to small businesses.
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Microsoft is working to make its volume licensing programs simpler for business customers.
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Except for the subs, that is Microsoft has rejigged its Office Live Small Business product to pull in more customers by bringing three existing paid-for versions under one roof for free.â¦
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday a program that will pay some transition costs for companies that want to move from Novell&#39;s NetWare operating system onto servers running Windows.
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Taking aim at Microsoft, Google plans to offer a package of software for business users.
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Computer, chip maker will license much of the technology behind their compact servers -- for free. NEW YORK  - International Business Machines Corp.
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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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A Russian mobile-phone operator is the latest service provider to team with Microsoft to offer Windows-based PCs on a subscription basis through the company's Unlimited Potential program.
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Frankfurt, October 18: Microsoft launched a new software product aimed at small and mid-sized enterprises on Monday to strengthen its position in a fragmented market it sees as ripe for growth.
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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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By announcing plans to maintain its current per-processor server software licensing, Microsoft Corp. has pleased customers and, in the process, put serious pressure on competing software developers to do the same.
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Small customers will soon get access to an online marketplace for "software as a service" applications.
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Goes for small biz biz Microsoft is banking on a pay by the month charging scheme to pull small businesses onto its customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.â¦