back to article Confidential Microsoft brief: 'We're TOAST if we fight Google on price'

A competitive strategist at Microsoft has told cloudy partners that competing with Google on price is proving to be commercial suicide, particularly in industries where firms are under financial constraint. The confession was made at a breakout session at the Worldwide Partner Conference, which Microsoft plainly didn't intend …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "...the areas where Microsoft feels it is losing to Google Apps"

    Won't be lessened by the indecent haste with which MS pre-emptively embedded its tongue in the NSA's rear. Google might be playing ball, but it looks a lot less like its enjoying it; more relevant, I suspect, in Europe.

  2. phaelanx

    Problems with Google Apps and Office 2013

    Since Office 2013 was released, unless you have the 'MSI' version (meaning a Volume License version), Google Apps Sync refuses to work. Google recently announced that Outlook 2013 was supported by their sync program but again, this excludes Click2Run versions. This means all OEM and Retail copies of Office 2013 just plain won't work with google apps.

    If you are tired of waiting for Click2Run support by Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook (GASMO), there is a solution because we wrote one. Our software will install GASMO and create your email profile so that it works once more.

    The current version of our software (1.0) creates the profile, but does not add delegate accounts or support command line options. These features are planned for a future release. While we would like to give this software away for free, we spent so long on reverse engineering GASMO and creating a fix that this just isn't a possibility.

    http://syncfix.ccp.com.au/

    Regards,

    Lee

  3. Vince

    Personally I think Microsoft is toast if it keeps competing against it's own partners.

    You know, the ones who are responsible for promoting and implementing what it does. If they think they can just "go direct" and just do Office 365 and ditch partners (and in the interim offering silly "incentives" which will ultimately cut them out), they'll find out that they will also lose out.

    Those partners aren't gonna want to go out of business, so they'll be lining up alternative propositions and it's not difficult to make more compelling services than MS offer that appeal to the very people those partners have expert knowledge of.

    Smells of fail over in that cloud.

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