Microsoft to spend $10 bln on small firms
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft is to invest $10 billion over the next five years to develop its software offerings for small and medium-sized businesses, according to Germany's Euro am Sonntag Sunday newspaper. SMB sales strategy chief Orlando Ayala told the paper in an interview Microsoft was taking a long-term view of the sector, which consists of some 40 million companies around the world, and expected its investments to turn profitable in 2005.
Microsoft is the operating software on more than 90 percent of desktop computers around the world but is now pushing into the market for more powerful and expensive computers as growth in its core Windows business slows.