Microsoft Business Productivity solutions for publishers help editorial teams to share ideas, organize event coverage, gather news, find information, assign tasks, author content, track production processes and archive finished stories.

Microsoft Mobility solutions help journalists to stay connected with the editorial team and file new content quickly. With its familiar user interfaces and seamless integration with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Mobile is easy to use and speeds up content delivery. Available on a wide range of mobile devices with different form factors and comprehensive multimedia capabilities.

Microsoft and its partners are providing solutions for search, digital publishing, and social media, helping publishing companies to create compelling digital user experiences.

Microsoft Search solutions for the Intranet help publishing companies make better use of existing content. Microsoft Search solutions for the Extranet help media companies to attract online audiences, increase audience loyalty, and minimize site update costs through employing “search as a portal”. They also help publishers to cost-effectively exploit owned content and third-party content.

Microsoft solutions for Digital Publishing enable publishers to publish to both the Web and the News Reader application using a simple, cost-effective platform, that can be integrated with print publishing systems for efficient content re-use-and re-purposing.

Microsoft Windows Live is a suite of free consumer services and tools like user identity management (Live ID), e-mail (Live Hotmail), instant messaging (Live Messenger) and photo sharing (Live Spaces) which publishers can leverage to enhance their content offerings by co-branded or ‘social media’ services.

Microsoft and its partners help publishers monetize their content through performance advertising and monetization solutions.

If the search and contextual ads on your site come from Google, Yahoo or any third-party ad networks, you aren’t completely in control of your ad revenues. FAST, a Microsoft subsidiary, offers FAST AdMomentum, a performance advertising and monetization solution that allows publishers to create their own branded advertising networks. FAST AdMomentum puts you back in control so you can pocket every penny of ad income your site generates.

With control comes a better relationship with the advertisers who seek to reach your audience. Your branded ad portal – powered by FAST AdMomentum – eliminates the “middleman” and lets you build direct, long-lasting relationships with advertisers and agencies. When they see the superior targeting and greater returns your private ad portal provides, word will spread, demand will rise, and you will have the foundation to drive the next phase of growth - online.