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…
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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…
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…
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…
The Importance of SLA’s – Enterprise Grade Cloud
Going to the cloud can be a big decision for some companies. Whether you are a small, home-based business or a Fortune 100 brand, someone in the business likely made time to read the Service Level Agreement (SLA) provided by your cloud provider. Microsoft has approached the cloud with an understanding that commercial customers have high…
Spring is in the air!
On Friday we finalized the code for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 in what we call RTM (“Release to Manufacturing”). Customers with active Software Assurance (SA) on these products will be able to download the products in English via the Volume Licensing Service Center starting April 27. (Credit: Takeshi Numoto, CVP, Microsoft Office for this…
WordPad’s ruler now matched by Google Docs
At the beginning of the week, Anil Sabharwal, Product Manager, for Google Apps wrote a blog post “ Laying the foundation for a new Google Docs” Please do read it: I found it thought provoking to hear how Google articulates the excitement of their new groundbreaking features: · Users will now have the ability to…
Headlines or Customers?
Since we announced that the beta of Office 2010 has been downloaded by over 5 million times, it’s been a busy week for the press. Despite this impressive milestone, which is equivalent to every man, woman and child in the city limits of both Paris and Los Angeles electing to go download a copy in…