This week, we rolled out our new Why Microsoft website, part of The Future of Productivity website. The new site has lots of new content to help you plan and evaluate your cloud computing strategy. I’ve highlighted a couple of sections below to get you started. Next week, I will share my Top 3 resources on…
Year: 2011
Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/8/2011
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…Enjoy! Top 5 Picks for This Week: Happy 10th Birthday SharePoint “This week is the 10th anniversary of the first release…
Real World with Microsoft Online Services – Overland Solutions
As part of the Real World with Microsoft Online Services series, we spoke to David R. Robinson, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Overland Solutions, Inc., about why Overland Solutions chose the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite from Microsoft Online Services over Google Apps to manage its messaging and collaboration environment. Here’s what…
Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/1/2011
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…Enjoy! Top 5 Picks for This Week: Four in 10 Small Businesses Planning Cloud Computing, Says Microsoft”The survey found that 39…
Google: "…Not Appropriate for Business"
Today’s post is the second of two guest posts this week by Julia White, Sr. Director of Microsoft Exchange Product Management. Yesterday I talked about the need to look at several factors when considering your next e-mail system, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Uptime is important but control, predictability, and manageability are also important…
Make Google Talk Straight to You
Today’s post is the first of two guest posts this week by Julia White, Sr. Director of Microsoft Exchange Product Management. For those of you who don’t know me, I run the Exchange product management team at Microsoft. I often post to the Unified Communications Group Team Blog; but my colleague, Tom Rizzo, suggested I…
Village of Schaumburg Eases Email Integration with Exchange Online; Dismisses Google Apps
Organizations in the public sector also see the value and benefits of moving to the cloud. In today’s post we hear from the Village of Schaumburg on why Microsoft was the best decision for their business in their move off Lotus Notes and embrace cloud computing! “We looked at Google Apps and Microsoft’s Business Productivity…
Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 3/25/2011
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…Enjoy! Top 5 Picks for This Week: Microsoft Helps Take Down Leader In Spam Email”Microsoft Corp said on Thursday that it…
Jazz Up Your Website with Embedded Web App Files
See How People are Using Office Web Apps! You may have seen my recent post about Collaboration with Office Web Apps to take advantage of sharing/accessing your files virtually anywhere, and collaborating in real time with your colleagues through coauthoring capability. Today, I want to share other interesting ways that people are using Office Web…
Vassiliou Trofinko Improves Communications in One Week with Business Productivity Suite
Companies of all sizes, all around the world are making the move to cloud computing in order to take advantage of the immense benefits that it has to offer. In today’s post we discover from Vassiliou Trofinki why Microsoft was the best decision to help their business communicate seamlessly and improve efficiency by deploying Microsoft…