Microsoft Software + Services

“Live” services from Microsoft are designed primarily for individuals, businesses end-users, and virtual work groups.  Live offerings span entertainment, communication, and productivity. These services emphasize ease of use, simplicity of access, and flexibility, and are ideally suited for situations where people either don't have access to professional technical expertise or don't require high levels of system management.

“Online” services are for organizations with more advanced IT needs where power and flexibility are critical.  Online services from Microsoft give businesses the ability to control access to data, manage users, apply business and compliance policy, and meet high availability standards while providing performance, scalability, security, management features and service level capabilities to support mission-critical applications and systems. Microsoft is providing business customers with the flexibility to choose between traditional on-premises implementations, services hosted by Microsoft partners, and now with Online services that reside in Microsoft’s data centres. More details are available at https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/default.mspx

· Microsoft Office Live Workspace -- a new web-based feature of Microsoft Office which lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. 

· Microsoft Exchange Labs, a new R&D program for testing next-generation messaging and unified communications capabilities in high-scale environments.

· Continued customer and partner support for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live.

· Renaming of Microsoft Office Live hosted small business service -- a service dedicated to addressing key small business pain points including core IT services and sales and marketing services -- to Microsoft Office Live Small Business.

· Microsoft BizTalk Services -- a building block service that enables developers to more rapidly and cost-effectively build composite applications, to enable greater cost efficiencies and thereby opening up new business opportunities for enterprises of all sizes.

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