Microsoft Leads in 10 Gartner Magic Quadrants

Top Resources on Why Microsoft Website: Part 3 of 3
 
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.  You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” 

--Babe Ruth, member of Baseball Hall of Fame and the first player to hit over 50 home runs in one season.

As an avid sports fan, I love this time of year!  There is so much happening:  the NBA playoffs, the Stanley Cup and my favorite, the start of the Major League Baseball season.  In particular, I love team sports, and this time of year, I remember one immutable truth:  success in business is a team sport. 
 
Over the past few weeks I have been blogging about the new Why Microsoft site, opening this 3-part series with “Office Web Apps vs. Google Docs – See for Yourself” and following up with “Look Before You Leap”.  Today’s blog is similar in that I am highlighting a new section on Why Microsoft that you should really take the time to explore. – It is the Industry Leader section.
 
What’s important about this section and how does it relate to team sports?  This section is all about the Microsoft’s Office division’s ‘team’ of products – Office 2010, Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, Lync 2010 and Project 2010. Microsoft did not create the content in this section. It is coming from one of the industry’s leading analyst firms:  Gartner. In this section you will see that this ‘team of products’ participates in a variety of Gartner Magic Quadrants (MQs).  Our placements in individual MQs are impressive but we feel it is even more impressive when you take a look at how the entire team does across the various MQs we participate in. 
 
Together, this team of products participates in 16 Gartner Magic Quadrants. The MQ is like the Sweet 16 of IT for everything from Social Software in the Workplace to Unified Communications as a Service.  Out of 16 total Magic Quadrants, Microsoft Office products were positioned as a Leader in 10 and a Challenger in 5 and a Visionary in 1.