Available to business customers only, Microsoft (MSFT) rolled out new versions of its market dominating desktop programs, Windows and Office.
Over the next year Microsoft will also unveil new offerings that the company hopes will combat a rising challenge from Internet-based software.
The new products, led by Windows Vista and Office 2007, will not arrive in the consumer market until after the holiday shopping season, on Jan. 30. Vista has been plagued by repeated delays, coming a lengthy five years after the previous version of Windows operating system. Microsoft vowed they will not let that kind of gap ever happen again, according to this NYTimes.com article.
Microsoft hopes to work with its server software to increase productivity by making it easier for workers to collaborate in online teams, retrieve and reply to e-mail by phone using voice-recognition software, and easily search for information inside their laptops or across their corporation.
Microsoft is fully acknowledging the importance to customers of Internet-based software, of which Google (GOOG) is a great example, with an additional offering of Web-based document processing.
To learn more about Vista features and how the delay will effect PC makers and software developers by read the full article here.
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