Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie on Sunday said the company is creating Internet-delivered services for corporate customers to complement its on-premise software.
Ozzie, speaking at Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference for business technology users, described some of the online services Microsoft intends to offer to businesses, including single sign-on and network management.
While Microsoft has launched consumer-oriented online services, such as Windows Live, until now, it hadn't fully explained how it sees the trend affecting companies.
Ozzie said that Microsoft's strategy is to offer a full line of services as an extension to existing client and server software, much in keeping with a notion first described by Chairman Bill Gates last fall.
