Microsoft After Bill Gate`s Retirement - Business
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Currently, Microsoft's most successfully sector is the business market. With the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft showed the world that it was up to the task of competing with the new age revolutionists Apple and open source software. Mac fans can no longer claim that Windows is ugly; and no one can support an office package, free or not, that compares in quality with Microsoft Office.
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One great competitor for Microsoft in the business world has been the Unix servers. Although the change has been slow, more and more businesses are coming to rely upon Microsoft for their server needs. With the recent release of Windows Server 2008 (the first update in five years), Microsoft is showing that it really does mean to totally dominate the server world. Looking ahead, Microsoft intends to release another version of Server in late 2009 or early 2010, along with its release of Windows 7, currently in production.
In addition to these big names of the Microsoft line, there are countless other tools of which many people are not aware. Microsoft has progressively taken steps to bolster its forces in the area of online technologies. SharePoint has finally grown enough that it is a force to be reckoned with, and many large technological businesses now do reckon with it.
Essentially, Microsoft is setting itself up so that it might be a one-stop shop for any business that is looking to improve its technological capabilities. Ten years from now, a medium-sized business will no longer have to invest time in its IT department just trying to figure out what kind of systems it is going to use. There will be no argument over what type of server operating system to run on or what the computers in the office should run as far as applications go.
Rather, the CTO will give a call to his Microsoft representative, describe the company's growing needs, and the representative will prepare a list of all of the products that the company is going to purchase in a year's time frame. The company will purchase these items, implement them, and experience incredible improvements to its technology operations.
Although small companies will still experiment with Macs for "media work" and open source software in an attempt to "fight the man," it will become increasingly obvious that the only real option any successful business has is to go with Microsoft and stick with it.
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