Microsoft founder Bill Gates starts the competition seriously? Bill Gates: "We must do far more" -
Bill Gates In an internal e Email to leading managers of his company to the great importance of the Internet noted. The revolution failed to materialize for the time being, even though Bill Gates announced it. With margins, he presented in San Francisco, the new Microsoft Office Live Web services
and Windows Live . Microsoft competes with the live-portals now
Google, Yahoo
and
Salesforce.com. Bill Gates compares the importance of new products with the Internet Explorer, which he presented ten years ago, and Microsoft's NET strategy, which started in 2000th
Windows Live is a portal with search engine provider to consumers, which can be personalized by the mouse. Headlines, weather, blogs and podcasts can be created either or it can Instant Messenger, Internet telephony and e-mails started. Photos and documents can be divided all over the internet with other users and documents from the hard drive of your home computer to the internet home page will be laid. Windows Live runs on Windows PCs and Macintosh computers, but not on Firefox browsers. Who has not installed any Microsoft software, can use the service, but Windows Live is not an online version of the operating system, Internet services are only a supplement. Integration with Microsoft Office is a plus. Office Live is a program for small businesses with fewer than ten employees. In addition to web hosting, e-mail access and simple web design, Office Live, that be in power from 2006 in the U.S., features for collaboration and project management. The services are free and ad-supported. Premium services and content will pay customers. Microsoft also wants to make the interfaces available to programmers of other software companies. The new services will be Microsoft position in the growing market for online advertising. So far, Google and Yahoo dominate the market. Microsoft now has deals in addition to Web-
MSN . Previously customers had to pay for office software, but ad-supported business models that allow small companies to offer spreadsheet and word processing. Given the rapidly growing advertising revenue, it will be difficult to sell custom software or software licenses, if similar products are verfügbat free on the Internet. For Microsoft this is a serious threat, for the Office Software Office generates almost a third of group turnover. Gates calls
second Web-offensive from -
Microsoft will soon no longer the number 1? Gates is afraid of Google, Apple & Co. -
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