Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is today expected to unveil a new product intended to turn Office into a data-collection tool and boost sales of the desktop software. Ballmer is expected to announce the product, code-named XDocs, at Gartner's Symposium...
To this end, Oracle and SAP are facing up to each other for the hearts and minds of the very large organisations, while Microsoft Dynamics (the new name for Microsoft Business Solutions) faces off against the remaining CRM vendors in the small and...
Following the big news, Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to silicon.com sister site CNET News.com about the past and future plans for both Gates and the company he founded.silicon.com: What are the things that you want to keep doing, both for the...
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, announced the offering in Boston on Tuesday at a conference of roughly 8,000 of Redmond's business partners. Ballmer called CRM Live "maybe the single most inevitable announcement in the history of...
In an internal email, in which he said the advances of many on-demand applications - from spreadsheet and word processing applications to email exchange services - are squeezing Microsoft on all sides, Benioff wrote: "Steve Ballmer has publicly...
Earlier in the week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer listed search - Google's bread and butter - as one of his company's most important areas of investment. Ballmer said the enterprise search market represents more than $13bn, and the software maker...