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…

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Microsoft Leads in 10 Gartner Magic Quadrants

Top Resources on Why Microsoft Website: Part 3 of 3 “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.  You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”  –Babe Ruth, member of Baseball Hall of Fame and the…


Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/29/2011

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: New Google Apps Customers Will Have to Pay If They Have More Than 10…

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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…


Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/22/2011

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: What’s Keeping Google Up at Night? The obvious thing that they are worried about…

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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…


Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/15/2011

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: Announcing the Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program Today, we launched the Exchange ActiveSync Logo Program to establish baseline for EAS functionality…

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Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/1/2011

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: Four in 10 Small Businesses Planning Cloud Computing, Says Microsoft”The survey found that 39…

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Google: "…Not Appropriate for Business"

Today’s post is the second of two guest posts this week by Julia White, Sr. Director of Microsoft Exchange Product Management. Yesterday I talked about the need to look at several factors when considering your next e-mail system, whether on-premises or in the cloud.  Uptime is important but control, predictability, and manageability are also important…

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Make Google Talk Straight to You

Today’s post is the first of two guest posts this week by Julia White, Sr. Director of Microsoft Exchange Product Management. For those of you who don’t know me, I run the Exchange product management team at Microsoft.  I often post to the Unified Communications Group Team Blog; but my colleague, Tom Rizzo, suggested I…