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Microsoft's Web hosting service is incompatible with .Net
News Companies that build a Web site using Microsoft's .Net Framework tools could be in for a surprise if they use Microsoft's bCentral Web hosting service: It won't work. Microsoft bCentral -- which provides Web site hosting and services to small...
[March 14, 2003, 10:28]
AOL blocks Microsoft email
News America Online said on Monday that it temporarily had blocked e-mail coming through servers from Microsoft's bCentral, a Web service focused on small businesses. An AOL representative said the problem cropped up when bCentral servers did not...
[July 2, 2002, 12:34]
Microsoft's Great Plains buy changes competitive landscape
News Microsoft is expected to offer Great Plains products through its bCentral small-business portal, among other channels. Hebert cited the bCentral small business portal's customer management, finance management and other services as examples of...
[December 22, 2000, 11:10]
HP beefs up small-business offerings
News Microsoft continues to add services to its bCentral small-business site while striking partnerships with third-party players such as Rivio and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, with which Microsoft is building a portal.
[March 6, 2001, 16:06]
Timing's right for MS .Net
News Microsoft is expected to advance the WebAppoint technology and initially launch it later this year as one of its services on Microsoft's bCentral small-business Web site, according to sources. Now we're doing a bunch of work to integrate WebAppiont...
[March 15, 2001, 8:18]
Microsoft set to acquire Navision
News The combination of Great Plains, bCentral (Microsoft's small business solutions arm), and Navision will give partners a wide variety of midmarket accounting solutions and services to offer their customers.Microsoft is committed to providing the...
[May 31, 2002, 21:00]
MS and IBM create Enfrastructure startup
News Microsoft already provides small businesses with a variety of software and services via its bCentral Web site. Microsoft committed earlier this summer to spending $150m in fiscal 2001 to beef up its bCentral site.
[September 19, 2000, 11:14]
News Burst: Office 2000 online
News Called Office Online, the full product will be offered through the company's bCentral Web services, a portal that provides services to small companies. The service will allow customers to access their Windows desktop and Office applications by...
[November 9, 1999, 13:39]
Microsoft releases new Office tools
News It includes links to Microsoft's online properties such as MSN and bCentral -- a Web site focused on small businesses -- and new tools and software that business customers can buy to create their own Web services.
[January 15, 2002, 10:10]
Glitch locks AOL users out of Microsoft sites
News Customers told CNET News.com that they were unable to access news site MSNBC, authentication service Passport and small business information site bCentral. A glitch is preventing a significant number AOL Time Warner's Road Runner customers from...
[September 3, 2003, 16:05]
New .Net tools released as push continues
News It includes links to the company's online properties such as MSN and bCentral -- a Web site focused on small businesses -- and new tools and software that business customers can buy to create their own Web services.
[January 17, 2002, 12:06]
Microsoft selects uBid for .Net
News UBid will feature products available on Microsoft's bCentral small-business site, the companies said. Microsoft has lined up another partner for its .Net technology, with CMGI's uBid auction network agreeing to use the software giant's Passport...
[December 5, 2001, 10:54]
Jesse Berst: MSN takes another swing at Web
News And bCentral goes into public beta next week, delivering tools and services to help small businesses. Bad. So bad he used the legal drug androstendione last year to get an edge over rival Sammy Sosa and win baseball's home run crown.
[September 24, 1999, 9:57]
Microsoft and Qwest ink US DSL pact
News The agreement also calls for Qwest to promote its services on several MSN Web sites as well as on Microsoft's small-business portal bCentral. Microsoft and Qwest Communications International on Thursday teamed up to pursue a wider audience for...
[April 26, 2001, 14:53]
Comdex 2001: Gates billing MSN Money Professional
News Microsoft's suite of small-business bCentral services, for example, relies on FrontPage for Web publishing and one of the company's two money-management programs for accounting. In his Comdex keynote address on Sunday night, Microsoft chairman Bill...
[November 12, 2001, 15:23]
Microsoft anti-spam campaign 'hypocritical'
News These include the company's small-business-oriented bCentral portal; MSN, which has its own email service; and Hotmail, a separate, Web-based email service that uses many of the same systems as MSN but operates under different rules.
[June 26, 2003, 14:42]
Microsoft tests out mobile .Net
News The .Net strategy spans Microsoft's entire product family, from the Windows operating system to its online properties such as MSN for consumers and bCentral for small businesses. Microsoft is readying a test version of software for bringing its...
[April 17, 2002, 14:36]
In ISP battle against AOL, consumers win
News Among other improvements, the company announced a new search engine for MSN.com and a small-business portal called bCentral. The big merger this week between US ISPs EarthLink Network and MindSpring Enterprises doesn't just create a big Net player...
[September 24, 1999, 10:12]
Oracle: Life after Ray Lane
News An online search yielded an opening on Microsoft's bCentral small business portal site for an Oracle 8i database administrator -- proof, Bloom, said, that Microsoft is "running its business on Oracle".
[October 3, 2000, 9:34]
Microsoft pledges £3.3bn to R&D
News He predicted Microsoft will see 7 percent to 8 percent growth in its Windows business, 20 percent to 26 percent growth in the "home and entertainment" business, which includes Xbox; and about 75 percent to 90 percent increase in sales of its...
[July 26, 2002, 7:32]
