Microsoft's rolling SMB thunder
InternetNews | at | by Mike
A busload of gear running Microsoft software for small businesses rolled into town Thursday.
The bus is the show portion of Microsoft Across America, a peripatetic event designed to show off and explain the advantages of Microsoft products for small and medium-sized businesses.
The events, being held in more than 250 cities through June 2005, features free, half-day seminars, plus the opportunity to talk to Microsoft partners and get hands-on demos.
"We're using this as a format to reach out and touch small and medium-sized customers who aren't necessarily called on directly by a publisher or large software integration firm, or that don't have their own internal IT staffs," said Jon Witty, area general manager of Microsoft's small business endeavors for Northern California.