The release of Microsoft Vista is on the cards and there are thousands of Vista-optimized applications that are in the pipeline but Microsoft has publicized none of them.
Breaking the ties of silence Microsoft has announced a new version of its Dynamics CRM product ‘CRM Live’ that is due to ship in the first half of 2007.
Microsoft that this is an updated version of the existing release and will be available two weeks after the release of Vista and Office 2007.
The new features in Microsoft CRM 3.0 for Office 2007/Vista are:
* Use of the Office 2007-style ribbon user interface
* Use of richer data visualization and business intelligence that are baked into Excel 2007
* Support for Vista gadgets, so that Dynamics CRM activities and alerts can be placed directly onto a Vista desktop or home page
* Integration with Exchange Server 2007, a member of the Office 2007 extended family, so that the new Microsoft CRM will allow users to store voice mail messages and track them automatically
* Support for BitLocker drive encryption.
Via: zdnet
