Codelco, the world’s largest copper mining company is ‘All In’ with BPOS! Today on the MS Online blog we are proud to provide a guest post by Marco Orellana, CIO of Codelco. You can also watch a great video interview between Marco and Chris Capossela, SVP of Microsoft Business Division. Codelco is a Chilean State owned…
Tag: Exchange 2010
Leaving Google Apps for Microsoft Online – Two New Examples
Today we’ve publish two more case studies that highlight how customers have answered the question “Why Microsoft?” Building on our previous post about customers ‘Leaving Google Apps’, both customer interviews both provide continued examples of why Google Apps doesn’t really deliver the nirvana its creators claim. China Navigation Jumps Ship from Google Apps. China Navigation…
Part Deux: A Different Approach to Calculators
Do you know Exchange 2010 improves storage capabilities so that customers can now replace SAN’s with cheaper, direct attached SATA drives? Did you know the new features in Office 2010 can allow employees to do their own photo/video editing allowing you to replace license costs associated with other products? SharePoint 2010 also includes award winning…
Lies, Damned Lies and the “Gone Google” Calculator
Do you click on 77 spam emails every day or have you spent $47,000 on a lost laptop? Me neither, but Google thinks you do and these are exactly the sort of numbers used to calculate your potential cost savings for “Gone Google”. In today’s macroeconomic climate, businesses need thorough and defensible cost frameworks to…
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…
New Zealand Rugby Union Picks BPOS
If you’ve never seen the NZ All Blacks Rugby Haka, it’s truly one of the great events in any competitive sport. (see video below). So we are proud this week to announce win for BPOS with The New Zealand Rugby Union. As one of New Zealand’s largest sports organizations they are charged with fostering, developing, administering, promoting, and representing the game…
Why are Businesses Leaving Google Apps?
Security Concerns. Hidden Costs. Document Fidelity. Marketing Hype. No Support. Lack of Roadmap. Oh My! These are a few of the reasons that the organizations I’ve spoken to have either left Google Apps or simply put it ‘through its paces’ and realized it’s more pony than horse. You can check out our new site of customer…
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…
Google’s Outlook Sync Tool: Out of Sync with Customers
My name is Brandon Hoff and I am a Technical Product Manager here at Microsoft and have been working on Exchange for almost 10 years. Since the introduction of Outlook into the Office suite in 1997, I have come across my fair share of connectors (IBM, Novell, et al) which have attempted to provide a…