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Wall Road analysts,Microsoft Office Professional 2010, the media and other armchair pundits are full of guidance for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. We;re fast to advise him to tweak Microsoft;s tablets so that they run some thing apart from Windows, hurry up with that initial Windows Phone seven update,Office 2007 Serial, and provide the Kinect to Windows sooner rather than later on.But are those the types of things that Ballmer and his top management staff really spend a majority of their time thinking of? Possibly not.A source of mine handed on to me some details that appears to come from Microsoft;s own scorecarding method in the finish of 2010 that detailed some big priority places for Microsoft;s income and marketing and advertising people. Not also remarkably — in spite of all the public noise around the company;s consumer products — enterprise wares (which still result in the majority of Microsoft revenues) are getting a lot of internal attention.Yes,Windows 7 X64, Microsoft;s Business Division (the Office team) had a bang-up Q2 FY2011, as the most recent earnings statement made clear. But according to the scorecarding specifics I saw — which, as some have reminded me, is a small sample from inside the company, and not true of all regions — some Microsoft managers consider Exchange;s license and revenue growth over the last several years to be “anemic,” even though Exchange is currently a $2 billion business.(If you;re wondering about Microsoft;s hard-core push to sell Exchange Online and to win education accounts over to online services, slower Exchange Server growth is seemingly at least part of the reason. Microsoft execs view education as a key early adopter of cloud-based services, and e-mail is “the gateway application” for schools.)On the SharePoint front, the public story is that sales continue to be phenomenal,Microsoft Office 2010, with more than 100 million SharePoint licenses having been sold to 17,000 customers. However,Office 2007 Standard, internally some managers are warning that the income focus on servers has been low “because revenue-based incentive compensation does not reward selling relatively low-priced servers.SharePoint license growth rates have dropped in the past year, and “########## CALs” — Client Access Licenses sold without servers attached — are now at 40 percent of the total, the aforementioned Softies acknowledged. To counter, Microsoft is counting on its higher-end search products, like Rapidly Search and its SharePoint for Internet Sites SKUs for growth.Though not specifically called out by the scorecarders, the changing software distribution models are another watch point for the company. Microsoft traditionally derives about one-third of its revenue and half of its products via preloads through the OEM channel. But the emergence of cloud computing as well as other new business models is shifting that mix, creating new competitive pressures and changing customer preferences.Microsoft is already no doubt effectively on its way toward delivering the next versions of Exchange and Exchange Online, given that Exchange 2010 RTM;d in October 2009 and Service Pack 1in the fall of 2010. And the next version of SharePoint (SharePoint 15, I;d assume), also is moving along the dev schedule, I;d think.