…and what about Microsoft?

Posted on | November 1, 2006 | No Comments

with the current hailstorm of news on upcoming web-office initiatives by Google and others, one might easily be tempted to forget about what that particular company in Redmond is going to do about all that. tonight, Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch (down-to-earth) and Steve Gillmor (way-beyond) both give us an appropriate reality-check about what to expect from Microsoft…

• Office Live (a free communication-service centered around email, calendar & file-storage) is announced to leave beta on november 14th. Gillmor says its dead-on-arrival, and who’s to disagree, since Google’s equivalent has been out for so long now)
• Microsoft announced a longterm partnership with PHP-company Zend today, therefor ultimately validating development-paradigms aside their own .NET-platform
• as of yesterday, there seems to be a free accounting software from Microsoft – Office Accounting Express 2007
• moreover, there’s an article on InfoWorld promising two new services to be launched by mid-november: ‘adManager’ will offer advertisers a single interface to manage ad-campaigns on arbitrary platforms, including Google AdSense, Yahoo!, Ask and Microsoft’s own. meanwhile, the ‘Business Contact Manager’ will integrate CRM-services into Office Live

 

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