The software giant is ramping up its online services and opening up all its hosted e-mail, collaboration and video conferencing software to small and medium-size businesses. Just last fall they began allowing large corporations to test out all this stuff. The plan is to eventually charge a subscription fee for the online services. Obviously, Microsoft has long dominated the market for most of the office software that's installed on corporate server and desktop computers. But now it faces growing competition from hosted software offered by the likes of Google, IBM, Salesforce.Com, and even the company it hopes to eventually acquire, Yahoo. Even though they are late to the party, when Microsoft goes after a market, they don't give up till they dominate it. Anyone remember Netscape?
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When the 800 pound company takes action, it doesn't pay to be in the way!
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