“Call it Microsoft Corp.’s five-year plan.

At its Convergence 2005 Microsoft Business Solutions forum in San Diego on March 7, company vice-president Doug Burgum told attendees that his company would extend to five years support of all Microsoft business solution products after their release.

Microsoft previously offered three years of support for its Business Solution offerings.

“This gives you a sense of peace of mind in how you choose,” Burgum told attendees during a Monday morning keynote speech.

He also outlined Microsoft’s product roadmap for the future. The first wave of that plan is currently underway and will extend until 2007. During that time, the company will focus its business solutions software development in enabling what were described as role-based user experiences – an assumption that processes supported by Microsoft Business Solutions software should be built to cut across many different business areas, including finance, operations, sales and marketing, and IT.”

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