Earlier this week, Google announced the ‘Priority Inbox’ (PI) which aims to help users sort through emails by having a machine filter and auto-sort messages in your inbox. I haven’t yet tested it but conceptually, it’s a really great idea, minus of course the most annoying bug of all time. ‘Priorities’ Such a feature set…
Year: 2010
Comparing Office Suites – Steering Wheel or HandleBars?
Steering Wheels for a Reason For arguments sake, let’s say you are deciding on a new car. You likely expect the car to have basic features like four wheels, an engine, seats and a steering wheel etc. Did it ever occur to you to make sure the seats are adjustable? Or if the steering wheel…
Sign Up! – Live Webcast: Evaluating Cloud Solutions: Insights from an Early Adopter of Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS
I am proud to announce that on September 22 at 1:30pm ET, we are sponsoring our first live Webcast featuring a Serena Software, a customer who has joined BPOS after leaving Google Apps. Sign up now and join us on the 22nd! Overview: Serena Software, a leading software company in the application development and governance…
Interoperability and Innovation In Action: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
With the “wave” (yes, I did go there) of announcements from this past week from both Microsoft and Google has got me thinking about interoperability and innovation. Given that customers and partners trust us to help make their people more productive and help them grow their businesses, both companies have enormous burdens to earn and…
A Tale of Two Cities – “Gone Google” and Microsoft Office 2010 twelve months later…
“It was the best of times, It was the worst of times…” the opening line of Dickens famous novel A Tale of Two Cities got me thinking about how busy the last twelve months have been for employees for the corporate campuses of Redmond (Microsoft) and Mountain View (Google). Summary A year ago, Google launched…
Hyatt Hotels tells us ‘Why Microsoft’ is their Cloud Provider.
Mike Blake, CIO for Hyatt Hotels Corporation, is our guest blogger today and will describe why he made the decision to move to the cloud and why he chose BPOS to meet the needs of Hyatt’s employees world-wide. Hyatt Hotels Corporation first began in 1957 when Jay Pritzker purchased the Hyatt House motel in Los…
Three Big Wins for Microsoft Cloud Services
Today at our annual Financial Analyst’s Meeting (FAM) we announced that The Dow Chemical Co., Hyatt Hotels Corporation and the University of Georgia have each selected Microsoft cloud solutions. If you’d like to watch any of Executive keynotes, please visit the digital site dedicated to this event. Three Different Customers, One Common Strategy These three…
WPC 2010: We’re all In!
First, let me introduce myself. I’m Tom Rizzo and I work in the Online Services group here at Microsoft. You may know the Online Services team as the Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) team. Before working in this group, I worked in the SharePoint product management team and before that the SQL and Exchange product…
Two More Customers Answer ‘Why Microsoft?’
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been proud to highlight why customers of all sizes, geographies and industries have picked Microsoft over Google Apps. Some have left Google after realizing ‘it’s more pony than horse’, others gave it a test drive and found out quickly it was ‘more showroom than track ready’. (Sorry, I couldn’t…
Codelco is ‘All In’ with BPOS – Mining the Cloud for Savings
Codelco, the world’s largest copper mining company is ‘All In’ with BPOS! Today on the MS Online blog we are proud to provide a guest post by Marco Orellana, CIO of Codelco. You can also watch a great video interview between Marco and Chris Capossela, SVP of Microsoft Business Division. Codelco is a Chilean State owned…