Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 5/27/2011

Each week, we round up industry news and articles that you may have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections.

Mobile Productivity: Introducing “Mango” for Windows Phone 7

Microsoft’s “Mango” Win 7 Phone Geared For Enterprise Users

Companies shopping for a new corporate phone for their workforce just got another fruit option: the Windows 7 phone with the “Mango” update, which will be available later this year. At the Microsoft TechEd 2011conference in Atlanta and on the Windows Phone Blog, Microsoft shared some of the upcoming features for “Mango” that makes this Windows phone more business-friendly.

Microsoft Hails Windows Phone 7 Upgrade

Here are three reasons why Mango might help Microsoft sell more Windows Phones, pulling it up from its current,, fifth place in the smartphone OS rankings. If these reasons don't persuade loyal Android or iPhone users, they might attract first-time smartphone buyers.

The Microsoft Advantage

Why We Chose Exchange, Not Google Apps

How did Microsoft win over the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina for an Office 365 migration? Better license packaging on a bigger ecosystem of apps at an affordable price — an advantage Microsoft can often wield over cloud rival Google.

Why Microsoft is 3X Better Than Apple For Customer Support

In the last few months I have met with both the Apple and Microsoft teams in charge of web-based support. While both teams are talented, their approaches to web-based customer support are much different. 

5 Issues That Could Derail Google’s Chromebook

Five issues that will also, no doubt, present challenges for Google’s latest open source operating system (and Android as well)

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