This past year we’ve provided quite a bit of evidence and insight about productivity in the cloud. Now it’s your turn to sound off. In one word (yes, one word), tell us why your company prefers the Microsoft productivity platform: whether it’s improved efficiency, collaboration, productivity, profitability or whatever word describes how you’ve benefited. We want to know. Up for…
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Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 5/20/2011
Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup! The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community…Enjoy! Top 5 Picks for This Week: San Francisco Unveils Huge Cloud Services Contract San Francisco had apparently considered Lotus Notes…
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…
Real World with Microsoft Online Services: Interview with Derek Major of Eligeo IT
?As part of the Real World with Microsoft Online Services series, we spoke to Derek Major, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Eligeo IT. We asked him why his company switched from Google Apps to the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite from Microsoft Online Services to manage the company’s messaging and collaboration environment. Here’s what…
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…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 5/13/2011
Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup! The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community…Enjoy! Top 5 Picks for This Week: Analyst: WP7 to Beat Android by 2013, Not 2015 Pyramid Research’s Senior Analyst and…
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…
Reedy Creek Streamlines New Email Roll-Out with Microsoft Exchange Online
Companies of all sizes are moving to cloud computing, taking advantage of immense benefits. In today’s post we hear from Reedy Creek Improvement District on why Microsoft was the best decision for their business in their move to cloud computing! “Having evaluated cloud-based email from other providers, the IS team at Reedy Creek concluded that…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 5/6/2011
Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup! The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community…Enjoy! Top 5 Picks for This Week: Orion Energy Systems Sees the Light, Moves Data to Windows Azure This move will…