Tags: Google, hosted services, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Sharepoint, Salesforce.com

Microsoft to provide hosted services to customers

Software giant Microsoft has said that they are soon going to provide hosted services to their customers.

The company would be providing these services for Exchange and SharePoint software.

Microsoft has now stated that they are planning to host third-party applications for partner companies.

A company representative added: “We’ll allow our partners to build applications that we’ll host for them and take that to SMBs.”

Kevin Turner, COO for Microsoft had this to say on these plans: “Any time there’s a major disruption in the business model, partners who have built a business around a business model get nervous.”

Google and Salesforce.com are two other companies which are in this space and are going to become latest Microsoft targets in this segment of the market.