Jeff Raikes Office Quotations

With Microsoft Office Live, we are making online services available for small businesses to create an enterprise-like IT infrastructure for them without the management requirements. Our goal is to make it easy and affordable for small businesses to have a more customizable Internet-based solution.

What Microsoft has done over the years is bring technology to mass markets, and we think the time has come to do that with business intelligence software. And we're building it into the Office tools that are familiar to everyone.

Partners play a critical role in delivering solutions and applications to customers with the Microsoft Office System. The value of Solutions Competencies is that they enable Microsoft to deliver resources and training to partners that are meeting their customer needs. And for partners, the opportunity to highlight their expertise to customers is tremendous in the growing IW solution market.

We are on schedule for the launch of Office 2007 by the end of this year for businesses and by early 2007 for consumers. We have scheduled the launch of consumer version in such a way that it is available after the holiday season.

The Internet is crucial to running a successful business today, and companies that don't have at least an online presence risk missing out. With Microsoft Office Live, we are making online services available for small businesses to create an enterprise-like IT infrastructure for them without the management requirements. Our goal is to make it easy and affordable for small businesses to have a more customizable Internet-based solution.