What are Microsoft offerings under the Software + Services platform?
There’s a growing recognition that the best solutions tend to be integrated scenarios that bring together the best of the Internet with the best of client and server software. Our approach to Software plus Services covers two classes of offerings – Live services for individuals and small business and a new brand called Online for enterprise customers – along with a platform that will support these services and our ecosystem of partners and developers
Live offerings: Designed to meet the needs of consumers and small business for whom ease of use, simplicity of access, Live offerings span entertainment, communication, personal productivity, and much more. Microsoft Live Offerings includes [1] (Some of these offerings are not yet available in India and will send in an update on their availability soon)
- Windows Live
- Microsoft Office Live
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live Professional
- Xbox Live
Online Offerings: Built for medium and big enterprises with more advanced technical needs Online services provide the performance, scalability, security, management features, and service level capabilities to support the mission-critical applications and systems. Microsoft online offerings will grow in the next few years to expand service capability for every version of software that we sell for on-premise consumption. Microsoft online offerings today include the following
- Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services
- Microsoft Forefront
- Microsoft Biz Talk Services
- Microsoft Office Live Meeting
- MMS- Microsoft Managed Services comprising of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Share Point Server, Microsoft Office Communication Server – delivered to enterprise accounts with greater than 5000 seats.
Microsoft Services Platform
To deliver the full benefits of Live and Online, Microsoft continues to add to our existing services platform by investing in new capabilities that will scale to support software plus services offerings for consumers and for businesses of all sizes.
Microsoft Services Platform
- Global Foundation Services: This layer spans Microsoft data centers, server infrastructure, networks, security, and operations.
- Cloud Infrastructure Services: Underlying all of the capabilities of our software plus services offerings is a set of infrastructure services that provide utility computing resources and management capability
- Live Platform Services: Live Platform Services enable the development. of applications and solutions that take advantage of the software plus services approach. Live Platform Services will be utilized by all of our Live applications and will weave together client software on PCs and devices, Cloud Infrastructure Services, and Windows enterprise server products to enable a wide to wide range of connected, seamless experiences
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