Microsoft hopes younger eyes have Office vision

LPH · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-2004, 10:14 PM

The young people, ages 19 to 24, are part of an "Information Worker Board of the Future" that will spend this week touring Microsoft's campus and discussing their ideas for the future of work and software.

Microsoft hopes the investment will pay off with some insight into how their flagship Office software needs to evolve.

"We want them to tell us what we don't know," said Don Rasmus, a former Giga Information Group analyst who joined Microsoft last year to head up its Information Work Vision effort.

Office is critical to Microsoft, with the Information Worker unit that includes Office accounting for roughly a third of sales and often more than half the company's profits. Still, convincing customers to upgrade is a constant challenge for Microsoft. The company also has an ambitious goal to increase the unit ninefold by 2010.

The students will also make out pretty well. In addition to picking up all travel costs, Microsoft is giving each a tablet PC and other goodies.

Microsoft hopes younger eyes have Office vision

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