One piece of new that oddly seemed to slip under the radar here this week, was the announcement by Microsoft and Telstra regarding their new alliance in Australia.
This alliance will basically see Microsoft deploy their applications and mobile services to businesses and end users in this country via the Telstra network infrastructure.
Microsoft have been making a lot of announcements lately about their improvements to collaboration, communication and wide are networking in their application software, and this alliance is a logical step. The timeline for the first services to be rolled out is as early as mid next year (2009).
Read more about the announcement via the company press releases from Microsoft and Telstra here. I expect local reaction to this news will be quite low key for a while, until the first services begin deployment. Then I expect most small business in Australia will transition across to these new platforms.
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