Office Zealot

Josh Greenbaum has posted an article highlighting the great opportunity Microsoft has with OBAs: ''OBAs are Outlook, Excel, or Word interfaces to back-office ERP functionality, and their ascendancy would make Office the user’s entrée into the ERP world instead of a proprietary Windows client or enterprise portal interface. Judging from the ...

Echoing last week's OBA POrtal announcement, CRN Magazine follows up with an interesting article covering traction of Office Business Applications in the market.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop reports on Steve Ballmer's comments regarding the future of Office. Aside from the comments, it is interesting that reporters weren't allowed into the event - Todd could hear the address from the hall outside. Anyway, Ballmer said people should think about three main areas when considering the future ...