Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. A look back at Microsoft’s busy year, A to ZThe year 2011 has been eventful for Microsoft, from its partnership with Nokia to the purchase of Skype and the first peek at Windows 8. Here’s Microsoft’s year, from…
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Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/23/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft Exec: Google’s Problems in L.A. Wouldn’t Have Happened to UsPart 1 of our two-part Q&A with Microsoft’s Tom Rizzo. He talks about the cloud, Office 365’s recent compliance coup, and why Google Apps wouldn’t be missed if…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/16/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. The 15 Best Products of 2011Microsoft launched its cloud-based service for Exchange, SharePoint and Lync — with support for online versions of its Office franchise — with ultra-competitive pricing starting at $6 per month per user. Enterprises can…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/9/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft, HP Unveil Joint Cloud OfferingThe Microsoft applications that will be available in a private cloud via HP Enterprise Cloud Services include Exchange, SharePoint and Lync Server, all delivered as a service. The public cloud option will involve…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/2/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft: Office 365 a Hit, Especially with Small BusinessesOffice 365, Microsoft’s cloud collaboration and communication suite for organizations, is selling eight times faster than its predecessor, the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and has been particularly successful among…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/25/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft Reports Over 22 Million Live@edu Users”Office 365 for education will include everything available in Office 365 for enterprises, helping teachers save time and manage their curricula while giving students access to tools that make learning more inspiring,…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/18/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft Office 365 and Doing Business in the CloudLaunched globally at the end of June this year, Office 365 represents a radical move by software giant Microsoft to shift its premium productivity, communications and collaboration products into the…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/11/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. How Yo! Sushi Saved 40% by Moving to Cloud ComputingFast-food chain YO! Sushi hopes never to buy a server again, according to its IT Manager Billy Waters, and is placing its bets on cloud computing to improve productivity….
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/4/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Office 365 Updates Begin to Percolate Through Microsoft’s Line-UpPieces of Microsoft’s promised fourth-quarter Office 365 update are beginning to manifest themselves via various Microsoft products. Exchange Online Updated to Offer High-Fidelity Previews of Office DocumentsMicrosoft has updated the…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 10/28/2011
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections.p> Top Hotel Group Goes 365 The company studied various cloud computing services on the market and decided to deploy Microsoft’s Office 365. “The Microsoft [product] won out because it offers a full package of benefits, including robust security,…