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Though the quest to acquire Yahoo dominated news surrounding Microsoft's Web strategy in 2008, another story was brewing quietly behind the scenes that could be even more significant for the company in the long run -- its move to offer hosted business productivity services.

Unison Technologies is offering its Linux-based unified communications software without charge to small and mid-size companies willing to share their employees' eyeballs and attention spans.

Intermedia has launched a whimsical ad campaign that pokes fun at Microsoft's hosted-services partner program to encourage customers to partner with Intermedia instead of the software giant.

As Microsoft moves toward allowing application service providers to stream Office to their customers, the software vendor still seems to fear hurting itself more than being hurt by Google.

Microsoft Wednesday began global rollout of its Dynamics CRM application, which is designed to appeal to hosting companies and give the vendor a legitimate place in an on-demand software world now dominated by alesForce.com.

A Microsoft partner has become the first to offer Microsoft's new unified communications software as a hosted service.

Microsoft released the first service pack for Exchange Server 2007 on Thursday, fixing software bugs and adding some new features to make the product more stable and useful for business customers. However, Microsoft's Exchange partners said there are still improvements that could be made so the latest version of Exchange can provide customers with a more complete end-to-end messaging architecture.

Open-source database company My SQL Wednesday opened a new subsidiary in Japan, according to the company.

Microsoft is expanding its hosted Exchange product for service providers to include instant messaging and Web sites that serve as collaborative online workspaces, the company announced on Monday.

Oracle trotted out a handful of customers at its OracleWorld show Monday who have been beta testing new versions of its database and application server software, which are supposed to make it easier to manage groups of connected servers.

WorldCom Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer Bernard Ebbers came out swinging on a conference call with investors following the company's release of fourth quarter and annual financial reports Thursday morning, trying to dispel market rumors of the company's financial troubles.