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Microsoft challenges RIM with smartphone software

microsoft_software.jpgMicrosoft introduced software on Monday to manage advanced mobile phones much like personal computers, taking aim at a business dominated by RIM’s BlackBerry.

Mobile devices are acquiring the computing fire-power to become crucial productivity tools for business people — and management nightmares for technology administrators.

“The IT folks, the same as it was in the PC environment, don’t want to roll out 10,000 devices. They want to roll out one device 10,000 times,” said Michael Gartenberg, analyst at JupiterResearch. “Microsoft is hoping to replicate the success and the model of the PC.”

The world’s largest software maker will unveil software dedicated to managing devices using its Windows Mobile platform during chief executive Steve Ballmer’s keynote speech on Tuesday at the CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco.

The Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 will allow technology administrators to send applications to phones, control security and generally simplify the management of devices that are becoming more and more complex.

Source: ZDNET


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