This acquisition advances our (business intelligence) strategy and our ability to deliver performance management applications to customers. |
Until now, business intelligence software has been too complex, costly and disconnected from the software tools people use to do their everyday jobs. |
We are making online services available for small businesses to create (big business-like computing) for them without the management requirements. |
We are on schedule for the launch of Office 2007 by the end of this year for businesses and by early 2007 for consumers. We have scheduled the launch of consumer version in such a way that it is available after the holiday season. |
We do think this is a different economy than we saw two to three years ago. |
What Microsoft has done over the years is bring technology to mass markets, and we think the time has come to do that with business intelligence software. And we're building it into the Office tools that are familiar to everyone. |
What we want to do is to make sure that we're working with you and our partners, the community. |
With Microsoft Office Live, we are making online services available for small businesses to create an enterprise-like IT infrastructure for them without the management requirements. Our goal is to make it easy and affordable for small businesses to have a more customizable Internet-based solution. |
Within a month, Ray was putting his thoughts on software-as-services on paper. |