Where is Wednesday’s IT Blogwatch? In Denver, where Microsoft launches a Salesforce.com-killer. Not to mention building Scott Hanselman’s ridiculously fast PC…

Marc L. Songini reports:

Years after nimble upstarts like Salesforce.com Inc. broke ground in the on-demand CRM business, Microsoft Corp. is finally set to launch its own, much anticipated hosted offering today at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver. The offering from Microsoft’s Business Solutions unit is based on the next version of its packaged CRM application, code-named Titan, which is due to ship in the fourth quarter.
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The hosted service will come in two versions — Professional and Enterprise Editions. The Professional Edition will include all the customization, sales, service and workflow capabilities of the Titan software. The service will be offered without charge through the end of 2007, and then will be priced at $39 per user per month during 2008 and $44 thereafter … The Enterprise Edition includes the same capabilities and allows users to continue working in an application independently of the service. Once the user logs back on to CRM Live, the data on the laptop is automatically synchronized with the online database … available in April 2008 … at $59.

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