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Company Name

Microsoft

Contact Information

Microsoft Office Park
Redmond, WA 98052
US
800-642-7676
425-936-7329

Website

http://www.microsoft.com

Business description

Microsoft is motivated and inspired every day by how their customers use their software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.

Product description

Microsoft offers a wide variety of software and solutions in a number of technology markets.

Products

Case Studies

Web Conferencing Solution Saves Company $400,000 in Meeting and Training Costs
Find out how Microsoft Office Live Meeting helped Cogan increase productivity and expanded business opportunities, as well as reduce their expenses by U.S. $400,000.

Microsoft Dynamics Case Study: Best Buy for Business
Best Buy for Business sought a solution that would support its extensive outside sales force and would provide a commercial CRM solution it could sell to business customers. Best Buy for Business found both in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Case Study
REAAL Verzekeringen, a unit of SNS REAAL, sought an easy-to-use customer relationship management (CRM) solution to more easily share information and increase support to its sales intermediaries. Read how REAAL’s implementation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 allowed the company to differentiate itself from its competitors and provide improved service to its independent sales representatives and organizations.

White Pass Yukon Route Railroad
When White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad (WP&YR) recast its business model, revenues gained speed, but the cumbersome UNIX system labored through long lines of customers, among other problems. Download this paper now to find out what WP&YR did to help increase sales 13 percent, clear out slow-moving items, save steps and stoke the profit engine.

eWeek Podcasts

Adding up Live + Windows
In this eWEEK Podcast: Microsoft recently launched the next version of its Live suite of online services. In this podcast recorded on launch day, Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live business group, discusses Microsoft's consumer services strategy in relationship to Windows.

Ballmer: A New Software Era Begins
In this eWEEK podcast, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks in his Gartner Symposium/ITxpo keynote address about how Web services are changing software as we know it.

Exchange a Worthy Upgrade
In this eWEEK podcast, Senior Analyst Jason Brooks talks with eWEEK Labs Analyst Michael Caton about Michael's review of Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2.

Filling the Third World IT Gap
From the United Nations Forum on ICT Best Practices in Burkina Faso, Orlando Ayala, senior vice president of Microsoft's Emerging Segments Marketing Division, explains to eWeek's Peter Galli how Microsoft plans help get technology into the hands of African businesses.

Imagine All the Developers
Microsoft Watch Editor Joe Wilcox speaks with student contestants from Microsoft's Imagine Cup, whose final event takes place next week in South Korea.

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eWeek Slide Shows

Do’s and Don’ts for Vista and Office 2007
These are slides that provide the do’s and don’ts for Microsoft Office 2007 and Vista.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Longhorn Server Beta 2
See the latest MS Longhorn Server build up close.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2
Check out the latest MS Office beta 2 build. You will see that collaboration reigns supreme in the next Office.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
eWEEK Labs takes this opportunity to provide an in-depth visual walk-through on the features and appearance of Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Will Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008, code-named Orcas, make a splash when it is released early next year?

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Product Demos

Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 Demo
Windows Unified Data Storage Server gives organizations the ability to manage an integrated storage solution that supports iSCSI SANs and NAS capabilities.

Product Literature

Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful tool to create and format spreadsheets and analyze and share information to make more informed decisions. With the new Microsoft Office Fluent™ user interface, rich data visualization, and PivotTable views, professional-looking charts are easier to create and use.

Microsoft Dynamics for Customer Relationship Management
Empower every employee to boost sales, satisfaction, and service with automated CRM that's easy to use, customize, and maintain.

Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Datasheet
The new iSCSI Software Initiator v 2.0 from Microsoft continues to lead the way on iSCSI innovation and functionality. Sophisticated multipathing policies for load balancing and failover are available, as is support for the new x64 processors, and for the Next Generation Internet Protocol, IPv6.

Microsoft iSCSI Software Target Datasheet
The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target is a powerful software-based iSCSI Storage Area Networking (SAN) solution designed and optimized for the Windows platform.

Microsoft Office Access 2007
Microsoft Office Access 2007 helps users quickly track and report information with ease, thanks to the new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and interactive design capabilities that do not require deep database knowledge.

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Research Reports

Gartner Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundary
The e-mail security-boundary market is poised for consolidation. Leaders offer manageability, message transfer agent capabilities, outbound content filtering, encryption, IM and Web integration, and archiving integration.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing
Explore the future of Web conferencing—and why companies that offer new deployment models and deeper functionality are poised to dominate the market.

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
This report offers an in-depth perspective on recent trends in the malicious software landscape based on data gleaned from several hundred million Windows users.

Reviews

“Longhorn” does more with less
Microsoft makes strides while decreasing areas vulnerable to attack. (eWEEK Review)

A ‘Rights-Constrained’ Vista View
Non-admins may find security-conscious Vista challenging at first. (eWEEK Review)

Big Changes in Exchange
The next version of Exchange Server is chockablock full of new features, so companies interested in migrating to it will need to spend considerable time in evaluation mode. (eWEEK Review)

Change is Good for SQL Server 2005
Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server 2005 represents significant change for administrators—the database server includes several new features that add capability and improve performance, but they increase complexity as well.(eWEEK Review)

Creature House Expression 3
If you want to create graphics and illustrations on your computer from scratch, Expression puts enormous power at your disposal. (PC Magazine Review)

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Survey Results

The View on Vista
A Ziff Davis research study surveys it pros about their Vista plans.

Tech Analysis

Pushing The Button on Vista
Ok, your organization has made a decision to move to Windows Vista.

Command Line Makes Comeback
Once upon a time, when DOS walked the Earth, the command line was the primary user interface for most of our computers.

Labs Drills Down into Vista’s UAC Feature
Vista’s user account control will bring the OS up to snuff with rivals. (eWEEK Review)

Microsoft On-Demand Bid Targets Salesforce
Software maker looks to low prices, partner buy-in to propel Dynamics Live and make enterprise SAAS inroads.

Prepare for Vista Future
Tool Eases group policy migration.

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Technology Briefs

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Feature Guide
This feature guide describes Live Meeting and its capabilities to make it the most effective hosted meeting service for integrated, interactive, and easy Web conferencing.

Microsoft CRM Best Practices
The purpose of this document is to assist you in a successful upgrade from Microsoft CRM 1.2 to Microsoft CRM 3.0. This document will review the key components you should prepare in your environment that are important for a successful upgrade to Microsoft CRM 3.0.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Deployment Guide
This guide provides the information you need to understand, plan, and perform a Microsoft Office Live Meeting deployment in your environment.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Quick Reference Guide
A brief reference tool outlining the functionality of Microsoft Office Live Meeting. Learn how to meet instantly, schedule meetings, and present your content.

Top Microsoft Technologies
Expertise in one or more of these 5 areas will allow partners to profit off high-growth opportunities.

Trial Downloads

Try Microsoft Office Live Meeting FREE for 30 Days
Host unlimited Web-based meetings and collaborative sessions through Microsoft Office Live Meeting.

Free 30 Day Hosted Filtering Service Trial
Learn how to protect your messaging system from the growing array of e-mail-borne threats, including viruses, spam, phishing, zombies and more. Test-drive Microsoft Hosted Filtering Service today.

Videos

BT Case Study
BT is focused on enabling its workforce to work in a flexible manner. Find out how the new Exchange Server 2007 environment enables its global team to work more efficiently.

Dell Deploys Microsoft System Center as Scalable IT Management Solution
With a worldwide IT infrastructure consisting of approximately 100,000 Windows-based computers and 13,500 servers, Dell needs scalable IT management solutions to keep its global business running smoothly. To meet that need, the company chose Microsoft System Center solutions.

EDS Adopts IT Management Tools from Microsoft System Center to Improve Client Service Delivery
With more than 3 million Windows-based systems under management worldwide, technology services provider EDS is using Microsoft System Center IT solutions to standardize and automate its IT operations.

HSBC Improves Reliability, Security, Savings in Desktop Standardization with Microsoft System Center
In 2004, financial group HSBC launched an initiative to reduce the cost of supporting 300,000 desktop computers by 20 percent through rigorous standardization. To help achieve this goal, the company deployed Microsoft System Center solutions as an integral part of its new environment.

IT Management Solutions from Microsoft System Center Help Nissan Reduce Costs
When Nissan needed to improve desktop management and server monitoring, the global automaker turned to Microsoft System Center IT management solutions.

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Webcasts

Best Practices for Optimal Web Conferencing Security
This webcast is for IT professionals, and presents strategies for scheduling, conducting, and managing Microsoft Office Live Meeting Web conferences in a secure manner.

The Benefits of Hosted Services for Messaging and Security Management
This IDC webcast examines how messaging-system threats are driving organizations to explore the benefits of hosted security solutions such as Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services.

Windows Storage Vision: Universal Distributed Storage
This webcast presents an overview of Universal Distributed Storage.

White Papers

Hosted Email Security: Staying Ahead of New Threats
In the last two years, email has become a fierce battleground between the nefarious forces of spam and malware, and the heroes of messaging protection. The spam volumes increased alarmingly every month, bringing clever new forms of phishing and virus propagation attacks.

Application Virtualization: The Next Frontier
How Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization technology can help organizations curb IT costs, boost user productivity, improve service levels, and increase business agility.

Asserting Control, Seizing Opportunity in High Tech: Five Critical Success Factors
Until recently, many high-tech manufacturers have been able to survive by the 80/20 rule, where they applied 80% of their operational focus to 20% or less of their critical customers and suppliers. That was then. The new mandate from channel masters is for more intense, collaborative relationships with fewer suppliers. They are driving to a new demand-driven value network.

Build a Competitive Edge for Manufacturing Plant Operations
This white paper outlines ways that technology can help manufacturers meet challenges, increase operational efficiency, and step ahead of competitors with more proactive planning, greater shared visibility, and more agile and more profitable responses to change. This white paper will also address specific ways that Microsoft Dynamics AX can help your manufacturing operations compete, grow, and succeed.

Connected Services Framework for Wireline
This paper provides business decision makers with an overview of Microsoft Connected Services Framework, a solution that helps providers boost revenues by facilitating service creation and delivery, and third-party partnerships.

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Meetings Around The World: The Impact of Collaboration on Business Performance by Microsoft

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