Thursday, May 10, 2007
Ballmer: Submit and OBA-y | The Register
Ballmer: Submit and OBA-y The Register: "Duet is a joint project of SAP and Microsoft which integrates Office as a front end 'business process' for SAP. Ballmer said he met SAP CEO Henning Kagermann ten days ago to express his concerns.
But the project's failure to take off as hoped didn't hamper Ballmer's sunny (and unsurprisingly, loud) outlook on the future of OBAs with Office 2007.
'We see a real opportunity for business solutions to marry software and services with popular Office applications that run on the desktop,' Ballmer said.
He believes users too, want to jump at the chance to take information from other programs 'into the comfort' of Microsoft Office.
OBAs aren't new to the Office suite, but have been more richly integrated into the Office 2007 lineup. Microsoft sees it as a major selling point to IT exec crowd."
But the project's failure to take off as hoped didn't hamper Ballmer's sunny (and unsurprisingly, loud) outlook on the future of OBAs with Office 2007.
'We see a real opportunity for business solutions to marry software and services with popular Office applications that run on the desktop,' Ballmer said.
He believes users too, want to jump at the chance to take information from other programs 'into the comfort' of Microsoft Office.
OBAs aren't new to the Office suite, but have been more richly integrated into the Office 2007 lineup. Microsoft sees it as a major selling point to IT exec crowd."
