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For Microsoft resellers that had been fearing Microsoft would drop the bottom out with the hosted-services company with its Microsoft On the web solutions offerings, their nightmares had been realized on July eight. Microsoft is organizing to sell Microsoft-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for $3 per person monthly.Microsoft unveiled pricing and partner-commission details of its Microsoft Internet family at the company;s annual Globally Companion Conference, which kicked off in Houston this week.Microsoft officials mentioned it will supply a new low-end companion service,Windows 7 Pro, which it can be calling the “Deskless Worker Suite” — a bundle of Exchange Over the internet Deskless Worker and SharePoint On-line Deskless Worker — for the aforementioned $3 per user/per month fee. Customers who want the complete Microsoft-hosted Organization Productivity Online suite — Exchange On-line, SharePoint On the internet, Office Communications On the net (for instant-messaging and presence) and Office Live Meeting — will be able to subscribe for $15 per user per month. The firm also will allow users who are interested in subscribing to individual Microsoft-hosted providers to select that option, as well.(Here;s a good chart with all the different Microsoft-hosted companies pricing options in one place.)Microsoft described its target market for the Deskless Worker products as “designed to meet the needs of deskless workers,Office Ultimate 2007 Key, those people who typically spend a tiny portion of their workday using a computer but still need to communicate and collaborate with colleagues and partners.” In other words — though not Microsoft;s (public) words — Microsoft is aiming at users who might be persuaded to move to Google Docs with its Deskless Worker line-up.More than the past couple of years, Microsoft has been attempting to persuade its partners,Office Ultimate 2007, especially those who;ve built businesses around hosting Microsoft software for their customers, that Microsoft isn;t going to steamroll them with its new managed-service offerings. Microsoft execs have been warning partners to get out with the plain-old hosting small business and to, instead,Office Ultimate 2007 Key, focus on more with the value-add they can offer on top of hosted solutions.In the Companion conference, Microsoft execs told partners that they;d kick back 12 percent of the first-year contract price, and six percent with the ongoing subscription fee on these new Microsoft-hosted offerings. “This can translate into 18 percent of the subscription value in the first year of the partner’s relationship together with the customer,” Microsoft told partners via a press release it issued on July eight.But some partners were caught off-guard when Microsoft told them earlier this year that the corporation had decided to give Microsoft-hosted providers to customers of all sizes, not just to Microsoft;s largest customers, as it had indicated it planned to do previously.Not surprisingly,Genuine Office 2007, some partners have been leery of turning their established customer relationships over to Microsoft. Many have built lucrative businesses around hosting Exchange, SQL Server and other Microsoft software and didn;t expect they, as Microsoft “partners,” would have to compete with Microsoft head-to-head in providing hosted services to small- to mid-size businesses (SMBs).Any Microsoft partners or customers out there who want to weigh in on Microsoft;s new hosted-services offerings, pricing and commissions?