Microsoft Small Business Applications

As I hit the two year anniversary of this blog, I want to thank all our customers and partners who provided feedback and comments about our product line to me via this forum. The blog turned out to be super valuable to get (near) real time feedback on...

PC world just published its review of the new Office Accounting 2008. Here is a link to the article by Richard Morochove: http://s.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/139786/microsoft_office_accounting_gets_more_versatile.html

There are some very detailed and thoughtful reviews just getting published covering the use of Office Accounting, Business Contact Manager and the rest of the Office suite for small businesses. Here is a sampling of these write ups: http://www.crn...

Office Accounting download sites are : USA : www.ideawins.com UK : www.msofficeaccounting.co.uk

Office Accounting 2008 has shipped and is available for immediate download. It's a fantastic release and is now available in the UK as well as the US. For the US market, Office Accounting is now available both in English and in Spanish languages. ...

Given Cambell who won the runner up award in our ideawins contest last year has just launched her new web site. Check it out at www.givencampbell.com . Given's business idea and passion for her craft is very inspiring and I am so delighted to see her...

Our retail management software (RMS) has been doing extremely well in market and I am delighted that our most recent installations include marquee names like : Harpo Production (Oprah Winfrey's production company) Seattle Seahawks Dallas Cowboys...

We just released a refresh to our ideawins site for Office Accounting. Its really cool and worth checking out. www.ideawins.com is the custom site off www.microsoft.com and is focused 100% on Office Accounting. The first version was launched on 10...

Its been a quiet summer when it comes to blogging but an intense period as we get ready to launch the new versions of Office Accounting, Business Contact Manager and Point of Sale. We have also updated and added several new enhancements to our web services...

I am pleased to share the news that Office Accounting Express 2007 has won the CPA technology advisor's most innovative award for 2007. This marks the second consecutive year that the Office accounting product has won the prestigious award that is voted...

A great example of the power of integrated business suite across POS, accounting, customer management and online services is Bella Provence, a small retailer in MIll Creek, WA selling home decor items for the past two decades. Bella Provence switched...

One of the most frequent questions I have gotten from emails and comments on my blog have been with regard to centralizing the database server for Business contact manager. While BCM was designed to be a peer to peer deployment in small businesses with...

This week, several enhancements to the Office Accounting 2007 - eBAY service went live. All the new features are focused on further simplifying the listing process from OA into ebay. The ebay marketplace integration is one of the most popular web services...

This morning at 9:30 AM, live on NBC's TodayShow , we announced the winner of the ideawins.com ultimate challenge. The four finalists along with the three judges appeared with Al Roker in a really great segment highlighting the contest. It was a real...

There was a thoughtful review in the latest issue of Fortune Small Business comparing Office Accounting professional 2007 to Quickbooks Premier 2007. Jonathan Blum the writer put both products through their paces and test drove them personally over several...

On Oct 30 th , 2006 we released Office Accounting Express 2007 on http://www.ideawins.com/ as a direct and free download from Microsoft. Our dream was to help millions of small and home based businesses move from excel, word and paper to a powerful and...

The core BCM development team has created a team blog to address the most frequent questions and comments. I have asked the team to also monitor the newsgroups and use the blog to provide detailed thoughts and view points on the topics that generate most...

And last but not the least..... here is a pointer to the newly released POS V2.0 demo: http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/RetailManagementSystem/Demos/POS/index.html

A demo of the latest version of Outlook with business contact manager 2007 is at the following link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/contactmanager/HA101759211033.aspx It has great views of both the standalone scenarios and the light-ups that...

There is a great demo of the just released Office Accounting Professional 2007 that can be accessed at the following link : http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/asstvid.aspx?assetid=ES101909861033&vwidth=700&vheight=530&type=flash&CTT...

All our small business applications and services are now live and in general availability as of this morning: Business Contact Manager with Outlook 2007 Office Accounting Express 2007 Office Accounting Professional 2007 Dynamics Point of...

At the National Retail Federation Annual Convention & Expo in New York city today, Steve Ballmer announced the general availability of our Point of Sale V2.0 and Dynamics Retail Management System V2.0 . These are fantastic products that build on the...

The small business R&D and marketing teams will be represented at CES in full force. If you want to meet folks from either the Office Accounting, Business Contact Manager or POS teams, please do stop by our very cool tour bus or the office pavillion...

There is a very detailed white paper that describes the set up of a shared remote database for access by multiple BCM instances. There have been several inquiries about this type of deployment and I wanted to highlight that it is possible, easy to do...

We had incredible fun today launching the Ultimate Challenge bus tour from Manhattan, NY. The launch of the tour kicked off at Hello Deli and was hosted by one of the most famous small business owners in America – Rupert Jee who many of us have come to...