Imagine if you filled up Wembley Stadium (82K seats) and the Rose Bowl (100K seats) with a totally new audience every day for 100 days straight. You would be on pace to be one of the most successful attractions ever. Well, today we announced that the Office Web Apps have been used by over 20…
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Real World with Microsoft Online Services: Interview with Jake Harris, Director of IT at Aisle7
As part of the Real World with Microsoft Online Services customer series, we talked to Jake Harris, Director of IT at Aisle7, about replacing Google Apps with the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, which includes Microsoft Exchange Online. Here’s what he had to say. Q: Tell us about the Aisle7 business model. Harris: We are a…
Comparing Office Suites – Steering Wheel or HandleBars?
Steering Wheels for a Reason For arguments sake, let’s say you are deciding on a new car. You likely expect the car to have basic features like four wheels, an engine, seats and a steering wheel etc. Did it ever occur to you to make sure the seats are adjustable? Or if the steering wheel…
Sign Up! – Live Webcast: Evaluating Cloud Solutions: Insights from an Early Adopter of Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS
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…
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…
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…
Two More Customers Answer ‘Why Microsoft?’
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been proud to highlight why customers of all sizes, geographies and industries have picked Microsoft over Google Apps. Some have left Google after realizing ‘it’s more pony than horse’, others gave it a test drive and found out quickly it was ‘more showroom than track ready’. (Sorry, I couldn’t…
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…