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Tag: Office 365
San Francisco Chooses Microsoft Cloud Email and Archiving for over 23,000 Employees
Welcome to the cloud, San Francisco! Earlier today The City and County of San Francisco and Microsoft announced their intent to bring the benefits of cloud computing to over 23,000 municipal employees by migrating the city’s on-premise email to Exchange Online. San Francisco joins a growing number of governments that are moving to the cloud…
Why Small Businesses Will Love Microsoft Office 365
For more than 20 years, Microsoft Office has helped small businesses be more productive. Now, we are evolving the Office family of products, bringing familiar productivity and collaboration experiences to the cloud in Office 365. With this subscription service, small businesses will have access to Office, Lync Online, SharePoint Online and Exchange Online, in a…
Why Move to the Public Cloud?
As a Seattleite, I only have to look out the windows to see a variety of often spectacular cloud formations. Businesses are following suit, creating their own cloud arrangements. Core productivity applications like Office 365, as well as many other applications for specialized business purposes are available in the public cloud. That is, they are…
Google Limits Free Lunch
For businesses with 11-50 users wanting to use Google Apps, the free lunch line closed for new subscribers. In fact, those business subscribers need to step up and pay $5/user/month for the pay-as-you-go, non-contractual option for Google Apps for Business. Only companies with 1-10 users will receive Google Apps for free; a version which comes…
The Hidden Google Tax
This is the time when many people in the United States are receiving a federal tax refund. Many of us worked hard to get a refund, hunting down receipts, and accounting for all possible tax deductions. No one would willingly give the IRS more than they owe, or submit to taxes they weren’t required to pay. So…
Office 365 Beta Review from Jornata
Jornata is a Microsoft customer and partner, participating in the Office 365 Beta for small businesses. The company gained its first experiences with the Office 365 suite of collaborative tools through the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which evolved into Office 365. Bringing expertise in SharePoint and cloud computing, Jornata helps customers begin running their…
Look Before You Leap
Top Resources on Why Microsoft Website: Part 2 of 3 Last week in part 1 of the Top Resources on the Why Microsoft web site: “Office Web Apps vs. Google Docs – See for Yourself” we illustrated that when you use Google Apps to open a Word document in the cloud and share with others, part…
Migrate Google Apps Content to SharePoint
Metalogix Software has just released Migration Manager for Google Apps for moving Google Docs and Sites content to SharePoint. We spoke with Geordie Henderson, Director of ECM Migration Products at Metalogix about how the product works and the Google Apps migration market. Who is Metalogix?Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Certified software product vendor that produces…
U.S. Public Sector CIOs Embrace Cloud Computing
My name is Tony Tai, and I recently joined the Microsoft Office 365 team. Prior to this role, I managed the SharePoint marketing website, powered by SharePoint2010. It was incredibly fun to roll out the first public facing website on SharePoint 2010’s general availability day. I also spent the last 7 years helping businesses establish…