Microsoft executives: Microsoft is buying software maintenance fee 6 times a . times

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News source: SINA technology
April 22 Beijing time morning news, new Microsoft United States enterprise and partner Group Sales Director luoen·makejiqi (Ron Markezich) acknowledged that enterprises per $ 1 spent on software in Microsoft, you must run to expenditure of $ 6 to safeguard its normal.
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Makejiqi is a media interview on Monday made his comments, he said: "If you look at the expenditure of the industry as a whole, will find that most of these activities without added value. You are spending $ 1 on each Microsoft software, take a maintenance cost of $ 6. ”

The remarks were alarming, especially from a person responsible for marketing Microsoft products to partners of the "preacher" said. Partner for Microsoft's software sales contributed $ 90% in sales, but could not earn too much profit, so most must rely on so-called value-added services to survive, such as installation, support, power management and system integration.

Makejiqi said, Microsoft's online services take look greater than the localization software, but in the long term, users can take this save installation and maintenance costs.

Makejiqi have become a strategic important promoters of Microsoft online services. As CIO, he was in 2005 and is responsible for a pilot project called Energizer, and later led the product team to build a Microsoft Online services, including e-mail, collaboration, and other services. Monday started testing Office 365 is the . latest member of the network services.

Makejiqi earlier this month as Microsoft United States enterprise and partner group, the post of Director of sales.