I am proud to announce that on September 22 at 1:30pm ET, we are sponsoring our first live Webcast featuring a Serena Software, a customer who has joined BPOS after leaving Google Apps. Sign up now and join us on the 22nd! Overview: Serena Software, a leading software company in the application development and governance…
Tag: Cloud Computing
A Tale of Two Cities – “Gone Google” and Microsoft Office 2010 twelve months later…
“It was the best of times, It was the worst of times…” the opening line of Dickens famous novel A Tale of Two Cities got me thinking about how busy the last twelve months have been for employees for the corporate campuses of Redmond (Microsoft) and Mountain View (Google). Summary A year ago, Google launched…
Hyatt Hotels tells us ‘Why Microsoft’ is their Cloud Provider.
Mike Blake, CIO for Hyatt Hotels Corporation, is our guest blogger today and will describe why he made the decision to move to the cloud and why he chose BPOS to meet the needs of Hyatt’s employees world-wide. Hyatt Hotels Corporation first began in 1957 when Jay Pritzker purchased the Hyatt House motel in Los…
Three Big Wins for Microsoft Cloud Services
Today at our annual Financial Analyst’s Meeting (FAM) we announced that The Dow Chemical Co., Hyatt Hotels Corporation and the University of Georgia have each selected Microsoft cloud solutions. If you’d like to watch any of Executive keynotes, please visit the digital site dedicated to this event. Three Different Customers, One Common Strategy These three…
WPC 2010: We’re all In!
First, let me introduce myself. I’m Tom Rizzo and I work in the Online Services group here at Microsoft. You may know the Online Services team as the Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) team. Before working in this group, I worked in the SharePoint product management team and before that the SQL and Exchange product…
700,000 inboxes in the Bluegrass State are "All In" – Kentucky Dept. of Education moves to Microsoft’s cloud services
We are pleased to announce that the Department of Education in the Commonwealth of Kentucky has gone live with Microsoft’s Live@edu solution. I highly recommend you read Chuck Austin’s (Office of Education Technology, Kentucky DOE) guest blog post for more insights on their experience. With more than 700,000 people, this is the largest cloud deal in the United States! Schools in…
The University of Arizona picks BPOS
Today we are proud to announce that the University of Arizona has selected Microsoft Online as the messaging and collaboration platform for all faculty and staff. Earlier in the month I highlighted the fact that 10,000 institutions on every continent have enrolled with our Live@Edu offering in the just the last six months! Research…
Google Docs does not make Office better
Hi, I’m Alex Payne and I’m a Director in our Online Product Management team. A couple of news articles and blogs landed today where Google is trying to make the case that existing Office customers (and there are over 500 Million of them worldwide) should hold off on upgrading to Office 2010 and instead utilize…
Global Educators Choose Live@edu for Better Security and Privacy
Since Microsoft’s early days, we’ve been 100% committed to help educators around the world leverage technology in the classroom. Two great examples are the Unlimited Potential program, which aims to help educators use technology as a catalyst for change in emerging markets and our Imagine Cup and DreamSpark initiatives, give students free access to our…
R.I.P. – Offline for Google Docs – Google Gears has left the building
With three weeks’ notice and no future date given, Google has mothballed the feature (offline for docs via Google Gears) that one of their largest customers called “an absolute must-have”. It’s ironic that when this feature was originally announced, the company touted “It’s NOT an April Fool’s Joke”. However, on May 4th as any…