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Vista
sales touch 40 million: Microsoft
SAN FRANCISCO:
Microsoft Corp. has sold nearly 40 million Windows Vista
licenses in the first 100 days that the latest version of the
operating system has been available, Chairman Bill Gates said on
Tuesday.Gates
said an accelerating consumer shift to digital lifestyles had
helped make the operating system the fastest-selling in history,
and that premium editions have accounted for 78 percent of Vista
sales.Windows
operating systems run on more than 95 percent of the world's
computers and represent the Redmond, Washington-based company's
biggest profit driver.Vista,
which Microsoft introduced on Jan. 30, also marks the first
major operating system upgrade in more than five years from the
world's biggest software maker.During
a speech in Los Angeles, Gates said the company named its
next-generation Windows Server software -- formerly known as
"Longhorn" -- Windows Server 2008.
Windows Server is
the server operating system equivalent to the Vista PC operating
system, with an emphasis on many of the same features, such as
better security.Microsoft, which controlled an estimated
two-thirds of the global server software maker in 2006, has said
the product is on track for a debut in the second half of 2007.The
company also said three new hardware manufacturers -- Gateway
Inc., Lacie and Medion - plan to build products for Windows Home
Server. That software is aimed at helping families with multiple
PCs easily centralize, share and protect digital content, such
as pictures, music, documents and videos.
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SAP, MS
extend alliance for MS SQL Server '05
BANGALORE:
SAP AG and Microsoft Corp, announced an agreement on a joint
offering that will simplify and accelerate customer adoption of
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and optimize it for the SAP Business
Suite.
The new offering will enable customers to easily transition to
SQL Server 2005 and leverage the benefits of a flexible,
enterprise service-oriented architecture to transform their
businesses.
“Microsoft and SAP have long shared a commitment to delivering
value through our enterprise-class software and solutions,” said
Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools
Business at Microsoft. “The benefits of running SAP solutions on
Microsoft SQL Server are clear, and with this joint offering
enterprise customers will be able to even more efficiently
deploy and operate their SAP environment on SQL Server 2005
while realizing a lower total cost of ownership.”
SAP and Microsoft have collaborated for over 15 years to
co-innovate and empower their customers to better align their IT
and business goals, starting with support of Microsoft SQL
Server for SAP R/3 in 1995. An increasing number of SAP
deployments run on Microsoft Windows and SQL Server, making it
possible for SAP customers of all sizes to take advantage of the
scalability and lower total cost of ownership of SQL Server.
SAP and Microsoft will help companies consolidate their database
and applications. This provides customers with a way to leverage
existing expertise within their organization, and benefit from
the long-standing relationship between SAP and Microsoft to
enhance business performance of their SAP and non-SAP
applications.
“Our relationship with Microsoft is the model for successful
co-innovation in one of the most dynamic industries, and today
is yet another milestone in that relationship,” said Klaus
Kreplin, corporate officer and member of the Executive Council,
head of SAP NetWeaver Technology, SAP AG.
He added “For a large number of our mutual customers, Microsoft
and SAP are strategic vendors, and customers expect product
interoperability between our products. By developing an offering
that will optimize our customers to deploy Microsoft SQL Server
2005 for SAP NetWeaver and the SAP Business Suite, SAP and
Microsoft are pushing enterprise solutions forward in exciting
new ways, enabling customers to harness the power and
flexibility of enterprise SOA.”
SAP and Microsoft have also agreed to set up a joint lab in
Germany to further optimize SAP Business Suite on SQL Server
2005
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