<joke> It looks like Microsoft is slowly reimplementing half of YC startups. </joke>
Seriously though, I'd be really worried if I was in SaaS space now. Microsoft is going after most business-relevant SaaS offerings, while providing infrastructure to others (what's going to be left?) at the same time.
I wonder at what point will this strategy be seen as monopolistic or as a threat. For example, what's stopping them from becoming THE accounting outsourcer for half of the world? First you use their accounting, next you are out. While MS investors must be in heaven now, others should be wary.
Anti-monopolistic laws probably won't kick in in USA, because MS has competitors in each space they are walking into. However, seen as a whole, one can easily see how impoverished (in terms of choice) the ecosystem is going to become.
Looks interesting. I wonder how these apps compare to the individual competitors in the space such as MailChimp and Freshbooks
Listings looks exactly like what I was looking for - does anybody have experience with a similar tool?
Isn't there some GNU tool that can automatically generate invoices and cheques?
Limited to "Microsoft Invoicing":
>Microsoft Invoicing helps you quickly create professional-looking estimates and invoices, so you get paid quickly.
I can assure everyone that I normally (slowly) create manually VERY professional-looking invoices, but that doesn't in any way help me being paid quickly.