Most corporate workers already spend their days using Microsoft Office. The company's goal now is to get more servers to follow suit.
With an already commanding share of the desktop market, Microsoft these days is trying to transform Office into a tool that is deeply tied into a company's core business processes. In Microsoft's ideal world, Office serves as the friendly, familiar interface for the massive databases that hold a company's customer and other information.
The server effort--which Microsoft is talking up this week at its first-ever Office System Developer Conference--helps the company in two ways. First, it helps boost sales of Office and other Microsoft server software, such as Exchange and SharePoint. But perhaps more importantly, once a company integrates Office into its practices, competitors will face a really tough sell.
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