Microsoft SaaS plan has image problem
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft plans to make expanding its SaaS strategy a priority in the next 12 months, but the company continues to suffer an image problem as it struggles to prove that it can compete in this new services market.
Earlier this week, Tim O'Brien, a director in Microsoft's Platform Strategy Group, defined Microsoft's plan for the SaaS market as a "move to the middle," as outlined in detail last June by Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie at the company's TechEd conference in Boston. At the show, Ozzie said Microsoft's plan to roll out services -- many branded with the "Live" moniker -- will complement its existing software portfolio rather than be purely an SaaS play.