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Coming From Microsoft: 'Hosted Everything': Page 4 of 4

Within a year, Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint as well as its CRM and ERP applications, with the locations of server farms still to be determined.
October 26, 2005

One thing is certain: Microsoft is exploring myriad ways to deploy and charge for software, ranging from subscription models a la MSN to easier ways for companies to buy incremental products not in their current Enterprise Agreements. Some industry observers liken the hosting move to the "turn on a dime" shift that Microsoft executed years back when it discovered the Internet.

When asked which other products and services Microsoft would host, another Microsoft insider said, "Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted."

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