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Could Microsoft’s next killer OS be SharePoint? Instead of being quite so blatant, Microsoft has taken a quieter back route to achieving the same ends via two related technologies: 1. Baking SharePoint reliance into more and more of its products 2. Requiring users to buy pricey client-access licenses (CALs) in order to use Microsoft’s servers Microsoft has been basing a growing number of its products on SharePoint technologies to provide basic common services like storage, pub/sub, identity/security infrastructure, communications and collaboration functionalities. With SharePoint’s BDC catalog and search server it is apparent that Microsoft is targeting SharePoint to serve as an integration layer on top of services and LOB applications in the organization.