Kartik Shah’s brag on SharePoint technologies, Microsoft Consulting, communities, business, p2p networking, IT in business

Yesterday I went to Mumbai to attend an invite only event organized by Microsoft where we have been provided with options to ask questions to Steve and had a chance to interact with him knowing Microsoft perspectives of what he thinks on various topics. Steve started with some good points and with subject "Partnering for growth - Imperatives in the New Economy" before it went to interactive Q & A session. He talked about windows 7, partnering and partner's important, addressed concerns of going alone with Microsoft Online services to customers, dynamics CRM, NAV, AX, pricing in India for home and student version of products, SharePoint, Google, recent oracle sun deal and more.

Here is the excerpt from the event based on best of my memory J

1. On recession: I would not tell it recession but we will say this is resetting and this would last much longer than expected. Be prepared.
2. On Dynamics : it is very interest products for MS and will continue to grow it with lot of investment in R & D. he also admitted in this recession time the directly hurt product is dynamics and but for India they are optimistic and pushing hard as there are many untapped market segment there.
3. On R & D : MS is investing the highest amount by this year end in the globe across any vertical or industry in R & D.
4. On Google: they know best is search and they are best. But apart from that we deliver and know what enterprises need. Their apps are too basic and may not have all features of open office which is also free. What MS offers is almost all MS office features.
5. On my direct question on Dynamics and SharePoint: it's very difficult for parents to answer which of their kid is their favorite or on priority. SharePoint off course is on priority as well as dynamics and SharePoint is red hot for sure.
6. On a question what would you prefer, cash in a bank or doing business from cash in bank. – He said obviously in this time I need cash in bank. (from other sources today, in the history of Microsoft they have gone for debit i.e. they have introduced Microsoft bonds in US market – click here to read the story).

There are many other topics touched and discussed in the summary provided above. If you need to know more on specifics don't forget to email me at kbi911 at gmail dot com.