Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 1/6/2012

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections.
 
Office 365 Cloud Product Includes Fully Customizable SharePoint Online
By now, most content management professionals have heard of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud offering... One of its best features is that the collaboration platform, SharePoint Online -- based on SharePoint 2010 -- offers many valuable customization capabilities.

New Release of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint Delivers Central Reporting for Microsoft SharePoint Online in Microsoft Office 365
The product helps users understand, manage and secure multiple SharePoint installations from a single product whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid of both.

Happy New Year for the CIO on a Tight Budget
Also this year, major steel-maker Tata Steel Europe decided to move all its email systems for its 28,000 users to a new SaaS model based on Office 365. The company was confident of saving over £1 million per year by doing so, but costs were only part of its motivation.

Office 365 Saturday in Redmond
On Saturday, February 25th you can join other business users, administrators, developers, and professionals that work with Office 365 and its corresponding technologies: SharePoint, Lync, and Exchange. Office 365 Saturday Redmond will be an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of Office 365 topics.

CloudOn Brings Microsoft Office to Your iPad, Complete with Cloud Storage
CloudOn brings a fully-loaded version of Microsoft Office to the iPad, so you can edit documents on-the-go using all of Office's features, and store your documents right in your Dropbox.