A 12 months back, Microsoft;s head of Workplace Reside told me that Microsoft planned to extend the Workplace Reside each up and down marketplace. On October 1, Microsoft lastly explained the way it options to complete this.Earlier this summer,
Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, Microsoft officials said that they had been rebranding the existing Workplace Live family members of products — Office Live Basics,
Windows 7 Product Key, Essentials and Premium — as “Office Reside Small Business.”Microsoft also is rebranding the growing family members of Microsoft-managed/hosted services that it quietly began selling to enterprises with 5,000-plus seats last 12 months as “Workplace Online” services. (Yes, these are the services that Microsoft began testing with Energizer Holdings in 2005.)The Microsoft-managed version of Exchange is now known as “Workplace Exchange Online.” The managed version of SharePoint becomes “Office SharePoint Online,” and the managed Workplace Communications Server, “Workplace Communications Online.” As previously acknowledged,
Windows 7 Key, Microsoft also is working on a managed business-intelligence service bundle, which one might assume, will be named “Workplace BI Online” (or something similar), but officials declined to discuss that product when I asked.(Microsoft is going to rebrand and reposition its Office Online site due to the name choice it has made for its managed services, Rajesh Jha, the Corporate Vice President of Workplace Online told me late last week. He made it sound like Microsoft was looking for the best way to commercialize some of the templates, clip art and other offerings that are offered for download on the recent Workplace Online site. But Jha mentioned he had nothing new to share on this front yet.)For home users,
Office 2007 Product Key, students and small-business customers, Microsoft is offering Office Reside Workspace, a new service designed to supplement desktop-based productivity software, and to compete directly with Google Docs & Spreadsheets.“I think it;s important to look at the bigger picture with Microsoft Online, Windows Live, and Office Reside (now including Office Live Workspaces),” mentioned Peter O;Kelly,
Windows 7 Professional, an analyst with The Burton Group. “While not directly competitive with all facets of Google Apps today, Microsoft is providing useful ;software plus services; offerings for the 500 million Office users worldwide, and there are still important advantages to using native client applications in many scenarios — it;s not an either/or proposition.”