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…
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…
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…
Codelco is ‘All In’ with BPOS – Mining the Cloud for Savings
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…
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…