According to Karan Khanna, product manager for Microsoft's forthcoming Small Business Accounting (now in beta testing), Microsoft is aiming for a release of the platform in the first half of 2006. Microsoft had previously announced product availability in late 2005. From the transcript of The .NET Show featuring SBA:
"ROBERT HESS: Now Christin mentioned that we were in the beta phase right now in this application. When does it actually come out into the market for real?
KARAN KHANNA: The plan is in the first half of next year you would have the application available. But it's in beta right now. "
The application, targeting small (1-25) businesses, is currently in beta testing. An SDK for ISVs should be available soon and those interested should visit the ISV Community Center for SBA. The .NET Show episode includes demos of development with the SDK as well as code samples. Other exciting news for developers is that, because user security for SBA is built into the SQL database (MSDE is supported), the platform will allow direct access to the database from third party applications or even end users' - import/analyze via SQL ODBC in spreadsheets, for example.
News source: Sage
"ROBERT HESS: Now Christin mentioned that we were in the beta phase right now in this application. When does it actually come out into the market for real?
KARAN KHANNA: The plan is in the first half of next year you would have the application available. But it's in beta right now. "
The application, targeting small (1-25) businesses, is currently in beta testing. An SDK for ISVs should be available soon and those interested should visit the ISV Community Center for SBA. The .NET Show episode includes demos of development with the SDK as well as code samples. Other exciting news for developers is that, because user security for SBA is built into the SQL database (MSDE is supported), the platform will allow direct access to the database from third party applications or even end users' - import/analyze via SQL ODBC in spreadsheets, for example.
News source: Sage
While the number of official WCG games remains the same, two titles from 2004, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Project Gotham Racing 2 were replaced with a Real Time Strategy (RTS) PC game, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (aka Warhammer 40K) and a console-based action game, Dead or Alive Ultimate. Dead or Alive Ultimate is the first action title selected as an official WCG game.
Warhammer 40K, which first joins the list of official games this year, was first launched in the United States last September as a next generation RTS game expected to follow in the footsteps of the popular PC game Starcraft. Gaming industry webzine Gamespy (www.gamespy.com) selected Warhammer 40k as one of the top 10 PC games for 2004.
Dead or Alive Ultimate, a new player in the console arena, is the latest installment in the Dead or Alive series. Since first launching last October, Dead or Alive Ultimate has enjoyed enormous worldwide popularity. The addition of a high caliber action game further diversifies the official WCG game lineup, which was previously comprised of RTS, First Person Shooter (FPS), and sports genres.
The WCGC conducted online surveys of gamers, communities and partners in many countries prior to making title selections. The committee also sought opinions from game experts with an aim to fully reflect preferences of gamers and trends in the world game market. Publishers¡¯ technical support in terms of event operability and fulfillment of sports spirit were also among the factors taken in to consideration.
# WCG 2005 Official Games
PC : 6 Games
1) StarCraft: Brood War – RTS
2) Warcraft¥²: Frozen Throne – RTS
3) Warhammer 40,000 : Dawn of War - RTS
4) Counter Strike: Source – FPS
5) FIFA 2005 - Sports
6) Need for Speed : Underground 2 – Sports
Console : 2 Games
7) Halo 2 (Console/Xbox) - FPS
8) Dead or Alive Ultimate (Console /Xbox) – Action
M$ Money!!? That's about the most over priced piece of garbage that someone can buy.
I've even heard MS going for the ERPs (called Big Plans something)
ive used Money. i purchased MS Money 99, and i think i have a newer version (2001?) that i got free for using some Stocks web site.
this is like Microsoft's version of QuickBooks. its accounting/invoice/employee/payroll software. nothing like MS Money from what i recall.
im in the beta as well. i guess the only thing i dont like about it is that it uses MS SQL as a backend (i already have MySQL installed). it would be nice to not use SQL, or at least let it use a currently installed SQL server. (why cant it use MDB?)
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