I have written a number of shorter and longer posts about how to win or lose a technology platform battle. I think in all the discussion I may have actually forgotten the most important rule to this game, "First declare you have a platform." Well, Microsoft finally seems to be getting this platform religion with the Office suite and is going full steam ahead on this front. Check out this article about their integration between Outlook and Siebel (Microsoft uses Siebel from CRM, not their own MS-CRM ironically). In addition, it appears that I have been sleeping at the blogging wheel and missed the first ever MS Office Developer Conference last year. A series of information related to it:
If anyone went to this, i'd love your commentary. This all bodes well, especially with new platform-focused entrants like Zimbra nipping at their heels.
