Microsoft targets smaller, midsize businesses
Reuters | at | by Mike
In Building 30 in a corner of Microsoft's corporate campus, a cadre of engineers and executives are hatching a bold plan to swallow up another $10 billion market: software for small and medium-sized businesses. Microsoft, facing slower growth of its core Windows business after a decade of frenetic growth, has made a splashy drive into consumer electronics with its Xbox video game console and its futuristic plans for a new generation of "smart" appliances wired with its software. But analysts say that the success, or failure, of its less-celebrated, but equally new Business Solutions division could prove to be the bigger and more immediate influence on its future sales growth.