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Gates to focus on online and advertising at Microsoft | |
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| Time: 08:18 EST/13:18 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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Bill Gates is to spend the rest of his full-time employment at Microsoft working on online and advertising services. Speaking at the company's annual Strategic Account Summit, an event held to demonstrate Microsoft's online services, Gates said he would focus mostly on "search, buyers and sellers That will be my biggest thing". | ||
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| #1 By 1401 (69.27.196.98) at 5/11/2007 9:53:22 AM |
| Looks like he's gonna go out with a nice @ss-whooping... |
| #2 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 5/11/2007 10:01:56 AM |
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Oh I dunno... the man's like 10 and 0, so far.
When he sets his mind and energy to a challenge, he tends to win. |
| #3 By 1401 (69.27.196.98) at 5/11/2007 10:08:48 AM |
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10 & 0?
OK - MS has killed the competition in operating systems - they've killed in Office Productivity - what else? Digital music? Search? MSN TV? UMPC? |
| #4 By 32132 (142.32.208.234) at 5/11/2007 12:00:26 PM |
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They trounced Netscape and Novell.
The have taken a significant chunk of the SQL and BI market. Not a trouncing of the competition ... but they make a lot of money at it. |
| #5 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 5/11/2007 12:04:25 PM |
| let's not forget messaging, or gaming, or dare I say, security? The CTO of eEYE gave an interview last night that was of particular interest... over and over, he praised Microsoft for having the best and most responsive security available by, as he put it, "Of any software company." |
| #6 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 5/11/2007 4:41:33 PM |
| Chris, you say "office productivity" like it was always a single entity. No, no my friend. Word trumped Wordperfect. And Excel put Lotus out to pasture. Not sure how to characterize Access, but seems it had a good showing too. |
| #7 By 32132 (142.32.208.234) at 5/11/2007 4:52:00 PM |
| Access vs. DBase |
| #8 By 37047 (74.101.157.125) at 5/11/2007 6:24:23 PM |
| #7: Actually, to be a bit more accurate, MS FoxPro was more of a dBase replacement / competitor. And they bought FoxPro, it was not originally developed in house. |
| #9 By 32132 (66.183.202.89) at 5/11/2007 8:19:40 PM |
| #8 Access ended the need for DBase and Foxpro for end users. That doesn't mean that developers stopped using Foxpro. It just means end users quit trying to create ad-hoc dataabse in Dbase. They used Access which came with Office Pro. |
| #10 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 5/12/2007 4:51:48 PM |
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Although not a retail product, .NET did a fairly thorough job knocking java into the distant memories of many.
Exchange made millions realize how antiquated Notes had become. I would say Notes has taken quite a beating. Thoughts? |
| #11 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 5/13/2007 12:19:04 AM |
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#10, Yes, one does not fully realize how much Exchange evolved until one migrates users from Notes to Exchange 2003/2007. While not a cheap process for the integrator initially,[specialty third party tools are recommended], with some practice and after a few migrations, a team can get it down and done in under a day. We've done our share of these migrations - mostly from well established law firms that made large investments in technology beginning in the late 80's through the late 90's. Many of them largely stagnated after that until what they had became unmanageable.
Once the migration is complete, there are a few days where users have to get used to Outlook and its integration to Office and just as often, a lot of integration work has to be done to tie in things like mass document scanners, third party legal applications and document management software that users are accustomed to. Then of course, users want to integrate mobile devices and supporting technologies like SharePoint Services and Live Meeting. So none of it is just about the Exchange or messaging. A lot of areas that make up a customer's business ecosystem have to be addressed. It really doesn't take long, but a good bit of planning and discovery are essential - most especially as regards setting up shared calendars, distribution groups, security groups and a host of personal user preferences that make the difference between happy users and those that are a bit lost for a few days. If the integrator pushes the connectors/relays out to services like Postini for anti-spam and mal-ware screening and adds additional layers of screening closer in - at the edge, and perimeter, they can assure customers see about zero spam and few, if any false positives. This part is terribly important to sustaining user confidence early on and creating differentiation between the old and new services. Finally, with the Exchange ecosystem in place, one can begin to leverage it - low cost business class VOIP and voice mail integration via Packet 8, for example [for small business], is ideal and really makes people happy. Leveraging the messaging platform further with Live Communications Server and presence tokens via the native control in .NET/VS2005 are also helpful. Essentially, the more tightly one can integrate a lot of little things that make users happy and truly productive are what matter more to them than how the mail is stored, or transported - those last two of course, matter most to in-house IT and or external integrators and providers, who will find the Exchange far easier to maintain, secure and manage well - particularly opposite the compliance and retention policies so central to legal and or legal services firms and specialty financial services firms - such firms make up very large percentages of the professional services companies populating the bulk of many centers of commerce and business - mid-level cities in particular. In this space, Microsoft's messaging software has become the standard and most desired product. Blackberry Enterprise Server is another area that will be needed in most cases - most especially so before Windows Mobile 5 devices with Active Push were baked into Exchange 2003 w/SP2 and the SFP Update to Windows Mobile 5. Phones like the Motorola Q and the DASH and Blackjack finally provided a phone that BB BES users would move to. Exchange, and the Microsoft ecosystem made this possible and it provided the basis for business growth for a lot of small tech services providers - with a bevy of smaller ISV's and partners/integrators building it out and sustaining it. The marketing is largely word of mouth and it spreads the word quickly. Any good integrator could make a tidy business of providing all these services - even trunk-slammers could make a mint helping small internal IT/MIS staffs build and sustain such services. |
| #12 By 28801 (68.81.50.122) at 5/13/2007 8:33:32 AM |
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Unfortunately, my company is mired in the Lotus Notes quagmire with no exit strategy. It truly is garbage (at least v6.5 and all previous versions).
For my group the addition of Windows SharePoint Services is a godsend. |
| #13 By 32132 (66.183.202.89) at 5/13/2007 12:15:42 PM |
| WinCE and WIndows Mobile. Remeber when everyone had a Palm. Sure Blackberry is huge, but Palm is deceased effectively. |
| #14 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 5/13/2007 2:52:28 PM |
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#13, Oh yeah and now, Windows Mobile 5/SFP and 6 outsell BB 11 to 1. It is a no brainer - less costly, easier to integrate and maintain, with one less server function. With direct push enabled, the Windows Mobile experience is great when used on the right devices [those like the Moto Q with a keyboard]. Microsoft has come a long way in this area and as always, integration and management and reduced costs/complexity were goals that were met.
As of now, we have only one customer that remains BB BES centric, but they plan to switch to Windows Mobile 6 this year. Used to be nearly all professional services customers were on BB BES - took less than four years for that to turn around. |
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