These worlds really don't work well together.
They were the first really big, complicated acquisitions Microsoft has ever done. It took us longer to consume the acquisitions than we thought, and certainly longer than we indicated.
The goal for what we're doing with this event is to talk to our customers about Microsoft's vision for delivering solutions in the mid-market.
It's not a question of whether or not you're going to need XML -- you're going to choose to use XML in the same way companies five years ago chose to use HTML and HTTP.
The main thrust of [Small Business Accounting 2006] is a product geared toward meeting the needs of the owner/manager of the small company, in terms of their business management requirements.
We've identified about 50 of these and we're going to start shipping them in our ERP products starting this fall.
XML by itself is not a solution -- it's a key ingredient to enable a richer type of solution, ... What you need is an architecture where you can take XML data and integrate it with various applications -- and that's what we're offering with BizTalk.
It will become a standard.
It's our view that companies in this segment are poorly served.
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