Microsoft to offer e-business tools
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft plans to release in June a new software program designed to help small companies route and process the mundane paperwork of business--purchase orders, invoices and the like--over the Web. Microsoft discussed the new product, called Microsoft Business Network, at its Convergence conference in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday. The new program, which requires that Microsoft Office be installed in order to run, is intended to help companies with less than 1,000 employees lower administrative costs and errors by reducing data-entry tasks, Microsoft said.