Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft’s New Enterprise Operating System Is Going To Be A Big HitWindows Server 2012, now officially available, is “destined to be a big hit.” ‘Microsoft Office 365 better than Google Apps’Unilog Content Solutions chooses Microsoft Office 365 over…
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Google Apps’ Collaboration Red Herring
In today’s workplace, a core competency for information workers is the ability to work together. As a result, we likely spend a lot of time in meetings. But we also spend a lot of time working independently—like doing the leg work to facilitate meetings or completing action items that result from those meetings. One study…
Real World with Cloud Services: Interview with Muttia Alkhayyat, Chief Information Officer, UrbaCon General Contracting
As part of the Real World with Cloud Services series, we spoke to Muttia Alkhayyat, Chief Information Officer at UrbaCon General Contracting about why, after adopting Google Apps for Business, UrbaCon switched to Microsoft Office 365. Here’s what he had to say: Q: Please tell us about UrbaCon. Alkhayyat: UrbaCon specializes in full-service design and…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 8/31/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Bharti Airtel ties up with Microsoft to sell Office 365 to SMEs via cloud computingIndia’s largest telco is working with Microsoft to offer Office 365 to small and medium businesses in India. Des Moines schools expand email useBeginning…
Georgia State Chooses Office 365 Over Google Apps, Saves $1 Million in Costs
Robust functionality and enterprise-class data retention policies. In a nutshell, that’s what drew Georgia State University (GSU) to Office 365 over Google Apps. GSU’s 6,500 staff had been using Novell Groupwise, but the product had reached the end of its support lifecycle. The university decided to examine cloud-based solutions, but after evaluating Google Apps for…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 8/24/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Skype is at home with MicrosoftTony Bates, president of the Skype Division, discusses the success of Skype over the past year. Microsoft Offers Guidance On Transitioning To Cloud ComputingThe cloud is “no longer about selling IT value. It’s…
Google’s Limited Cloud
It’s easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options. But what if there’s only one option—and it doesn’t fit your organization’s needs? That’s the situation with Google and its so-called “pure” cloud model. Either you move completely to the cloud all at once or you can’t use Google Apps. With Google, there…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 8/17/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’sselections. Microsoft SkyDrive Cloud Gets Big OverhaulNew updates bring SkyDrive out of preview and ready for a billion users. Microsoft Announces SkyDrive Re-design, Outlook.com Hits 10 Million UsersIn just two weeks, Outlook.com has garnered 10 million users. Microsoft Office Gets…
Google Apps: Forcing a Square Peg into a Round Hole
It’s been said that: “People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped.” We all know people who see things as black-and-white, who view the world in over-simplistic terms. By taking an all or nothing view of the world, we miss the shades of gray, the complexities…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 8/10/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. SharePoint 2013: 7 Features Users are Going to LoveSharePoint 2013 is “a significant release with a ton of great new features to talk about.” Here are seven from CMSWire. OneNote MX: First TakeOneNote MX is an application that…