Microsoft equipt account

For some, it's fun to trash new Microsoft products like Windows Vista and talk up hip new productivity tools such as. Class C Report. But we here in the world of the little man know better: Eventually these other offerings may grow to be a serious threat to Microsoft, but when it comes to the tools small businesses use to keep running, our business is still Microsoft's to lose.

Just look at the numbers: For all the breathless marketing of the iPhone and the Mac, as of earlier this summer, iPhone subscribers totaled just 2. Compare that to 91 percent of the market Microsoft controls in operating systems and the roughly million cell-phone subscribers in the U.

That makes Apple the Isuzu of the small-business computer market: a nice company making a decent product, but hardly a Toyota or GM. And so should you.

Earlier this summer, Microsoft quietly rolled out just such an offering. It is a new riff on its ubiquitous Microsoft Office productivity suite called. This product packages the business software you know: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and others, with ones you may not -- OneCare, OneNote, and Microsoft Live WorkSpace software that manages your computer's security, organizes your thoughts and allows you to collaborate online -- and makes them available by subscription.

And those services are delivered and administered in a mixed online and desktop environment. I have been testing Equipt in my digital world recently and, I must say, the company has taken very big steps here: Equipt is very interesting for small businesses. First, the installation is very un-Microsoft-like. No multiple discs or interminable upgrades or 45 minutes in front of the PC to get it work: Equipt comes as a single disc that takes all of 10 minutes to begin installation.

The actual installation -- that is, downloading and configuring the software -- still takes the Microsoftian standard hour, but on a fast computer and decent Web connection, that process can take place in the background. So you can keep working while Equipt does its installation thing, though you will notice some processing drag and slow speeds during the process. Once set up, Equipt prompts you to create an online account.

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