Ballmer: Microsoft wants a bigger piece of the software
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft may love its partners. But that isn't stopping the company from continuing to encroach on areas that have traditionally been its partners' turf. At the final day of Microsoft's worldwide partner conference here on Sunday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off his morning keynote with repeated shouts of "I love you, partners!"
But shortly thereafter, Ballmer warned the company's channel partners that Microsoft has its sights set on some markets that partners have had to themselves until now. Ballmer said that Microsoft is planning to make deeper forays into the business intelligence, document workflow, security and managed services arenas in the coming decade.