Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 3/11/2011

Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup!  The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week.   Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community.  For this week, we have handpicked the following five news items…Enjoy!

Top 5 Picks for This Week:

What Microsoft Got Right in Office 365 
" The Office 365 Small Business plan has a low starting price and includes website hosting. It’s due to take over from the current Office Live Small Business service in the second half of 2011."

Manpower, Tampa General Embrace the Cloud 
" Several companies, including Manpower and Tampa General Hospital, are announcing on Thursday their adoption of Microsoft BPOS applications, pointing to progress the software giant is making in the cloud realm and also to new features and pricing models users would like to see as such software becomes a bigger part corporate IT.

A System for Speaking IT Truths to CEOs 
" CIOs often have to tell CEOs that the large portfolios of legacy applications driving corporate operations are bound to fail sooner or later and need to be replaced. CEOs don't want to hear that...Here's my seven-step adaptation of SPIKES for CIOs who need to find the words to tell the boss that those legacy applications are disasters waiting to happen."

Delving into Office 365's email security  
" Microsoft is integrating its Forefront filtering technology into Office 365 and BPOS to make it easier for Exchange admins to let go"

Microsoft: How To Reassure Users When Your Site Goes Down, Using Twitter 
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Microsoft has teamed up with Psychster, a research firm that apparently specializes in “the psychology of social media”, to study how companies should use Twitter to address a site outage, unscheduled downtime or interrupted service. Provided Twitter is available, I might add."

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