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This announcement, coming hard on the heels of Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo, may be significant. It is possible the acquisition of Yahoo would be beneficial not just to provide direct competition

By Paul Rolich | Updated on March 31, 2008

On March 3rd, at the annual Microsoft SharePoint Conference, Bill Gates announced a new initiative in Microsoft’s strategy to provide online services. In itself, the announcement does not break any new ground. Last year Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer described the Microsoft spin on software plus services as a combination of on-premises, partner-hosted and Microsoft-hosted software. Gates’ announcement offered those same services to all companies (previously the target was businesses with more than 5,000 users). It also specifically mentioned Microsoft server product lines that will be offered on a subscription basis.

This announcement, coming hard on the heels of Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo, may be significant. It is possible the acquisition of Yahoo would be beneficial not just to provide direct competition to Google in the Internet advertising/brand marketing arena but also because Yahoo has a robust distributed infrastructure that would provide a foundation for a software-as-services solution.

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