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: The World’s Most Ethical Companies”The 110 companies that made the final cut this year…
Year: 2011
Real World with Microsoft Online Services – Rexel
As part of the Real World Microsoft Online Services series, we spoke to Olivier Baldassari, Chief Information Officer at Rexel, and Thomas Huber, Global IT Collaboration Manager at Rexel, about why Rexel chose Microsoft Online Services over Gmail from Google Apps to manage its messaging and collaboration environment. Here’s what they had to say: Q:…
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…
Swedish Red Cross Expects to Save 20% in Overall Costs with Microsoft Online Services
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 hear from the Swedish Red Cross on why Microsoft was the best decision for their business in their move off Lotus Notes…
Collaboration with Office Web Apps, Office 2010
Since our review of Google Cloud Connect, several articles have come to similar findings. The loss of data and the inconsistency of the plug-in have led some to conclude Google Cloud Connect is not-even-version-1 product. Today, let’s take a look at Microsoft’s approach to collaboration in the cloud. For both consumers and businesses, Office Web Apps…
Migrate Google Apps Content to SharePoint
Metalogix Software has just released Migration Manager for Google Apps for moving Google Docs and Sites content to SharePoint. We spoke with Geordie Henderson, Director of ECM Migration Products at Metalogix about how the product works and the Google Apps migration market. Who is Metalogix?Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Certified software product vendor that produces…
The Realities of Google Cloud Connect
Google recently released Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office. You might have heard some buzz. When the Cloud Connect beta came out in November 2010, people expressed their frustration with the tool’s ability to deal with the most straight forward tasks. Now that it is available we’ve taken a look to provide Microsoft’s initial perspective on the…
U.S. Public Sector CIOs Embrace Cloud Computing
My name is Tony Tai, and I recently joined the Microsoft Office 365 team. Prior to this role, I managed the SharePoint marketing website, powered by SharePoint2010. It was incredibly fun to roll out the first public facing website on SharePoint 2010’s general availability day. I also spent the last 7 years helping businesses establish…
Top 5 Questions to Ask Google
There is no question that being CIO is a demanding role that has been made more difficult by facing tough decisions about cloud solutions. Two weeks ago, I shared five key themes I consistently hear from business leaders who are considering moving their business to the cloud. As a follow up, here are five questions…
Dear Google. . .
Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you all have plans to spend time with someone special today. Or, if you forgot, it might be time to make that frantic call to the florist! Either way, be sure not to disappoint those who are special to you. Heartache is an interesting topic today and something…