Microsoft is very dependent on relationships with hardware and software companies to make sure our software remains relevant and works well with new software. Next Generation Windows Services. This is all going to be XML-based so other software can interface with the greatest of ease and, more importantly, customers can get software from other places and know with confidence that there are standards there for passing information back and forth. This is how customers want it and how they can improve the effectiveness of their organization. This is the magic of what s happening today people can put their applications together so much faster.
Customers can clean up their core process and greatly simplify how an organization operates.
We view ASPs as a new distribution tool. The other 20 units were sold with a license and people had master floppies and made copies off of them. Today it is just the opposite. Customers will go to a server and have authority to use software because of an annuity contract with Microsoft. Organizations may not even need a data center, instead they will have contracts with software providers.