By: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, at the company's first European-based Convergence conference that kicked off in Munich Nov. 6, is working hard to show that Microsoft is on top of the tech revolution - at least when it comes to offering its enterprise resource planning technology on demand.
During his keynote address on the first day of Convergence, typically an ERP-focused conference held in the United States, Gates announced that the Dynamics suite of applications is going live - as in Microsoft Live, the company's answer to the on-demand movement.
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Microsoft's Live initiative is based on a future where desktop applications are augmented with add-on, online services.
While the company has announced a bevy of Live services (mostly in beta now) around its Office and Windows offerings, it's taking smaller, almost-baby steps with its Dynamics suite of ERP software.
At closer look, the Nov. 6 announcement boils down to Microsoft providing a subscription model for its partners to host Microsoft's ERP software.
Read the full story on eWeek.com: Gates Outlines Live Dynamics Vision
