Report: Microsoft readying new SaaS push
ENT News | at | by Mike
According to blogger Nicholas Carr, Microsoft may be preparing to make a major Software-as-a-Service announcement soon, possibly at its MIX08 conference this week in Las Vegas.
"Microsoft has begun briefing its large enterprise clients on an expansive and detailed strategy for moving its software business into the cloud," Carr wrote on his Rough Type blog Saturday.
"The new strategy will, I'm told, lay out a roadmap of moves across three major areas: the transformation of the company's portfolio of enterprise applications to a web-services architecture, the launch of Web versions of its major PC applications, and the continued expansion of its data center network," he continued.