Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 5/11/2012

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

Not-For-Profits Choose Microsoft Over Google
We also took Google’s Apps cloud into consideration, but found Microsoft beat the search giant in price, support and relationship.

Connect your iPhone to Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support is built into iOS, providing push email, calendar, and contacts. Here are the steps to setup ActiveSync on your iPhone so that you can connect to Office 365 and synchronize your email, calendar, and contacts data between your iPhone and Office 365 account.

SherWeb Releases SkyOffice to the Cloud
In creating SkyOffice, we leveraged our decade's worth of hosting experience and spent 6 months diligently studying the market and observing customer trends to thoroughly understand SMB needs.

Cloud Computing, Data Analytics Top Investment Priorities for Businesses
Midsize businesses are looking to specific IT investments to boost their businesses, and the larger the organization, the more likely it is to cite technology as having the greatest potential to increase productivity, according to the findings of a new survey of midmarket companies by Deloitte.

Cloud Computing Gains in Federal Government
Industry leaders see rapid Federal government uptake in infrastructure-as-a-service, citizen-facing applications as agency CIOs warm to the new dynamic of cloud.

Microsoft’s Office 365 Becomes FISMA-Certified
“While we're pleased to have been granted FISMA ATO, Office 365 already meets the industry's most rigorous global security and privacy standards,” Microsoft’s Julia White notes in a recent blog post. “Office 365 is the first and only major cloud based productivity service to sign EU Model Clauses with all customers.”