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  • Look Before You Leap

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Today, we have a guest blog from Tony Tai, Sr. Product Manager on the Office 365 team. He frequently posts to the Why Microsoft Blog . He will share a recently released white paper and learning from customers who found that Google Apps could cost considerably...

  • Five Things Every CIO Should Know About the Cloud and Office 365

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Today’s guest blog post is from Andrew Kisslo, Group Manager, on the Office 365 team. He provides insight into what CIOs should know about the cloud, and specifically Office 365. With the recent release of the Microsoft Office 365 public beta...

  • The Future of Productivity and Office 365

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Enterprise Productivity Team}
    Dear Readers: Starting next week, you’ll be able to read about the future of productivity on the Microsoft Office 365 blog . We have decided to merge the blogs and post our productivity conversations on the Office 365 blog. Why? Because Office...

  • Unleashing the Power of a Mobile Workforce

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Enterprise Productivity Team}
    No longer are information workers confined to the four walls of the office building. The combination of high-speed wireless networks and powerful mobile devices such as laptops, smartphones, and PDAs has made it possible to work from pretty much anywhere...

  • Putting the Brakes on Server Sprawl

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Every time I climb into my car, I’m stunned to observe the increased sprawl across the Seattle area. Seattle has always been a city of freeways. But over time, more roads have been built and more highways widened to accommodate the city’s...

  • This Week in Review - Enterprise Mobility

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Enterprise Productivity Team}
    Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up— share your links in the...

  • Four Links Addressing the Challenges of Moving to the Cloud

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up—share your links in the...

  • A Flexible Company = a Healthy Company

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    A couple months ago, I noticed how stiff I had become. I was playing around with my son when I realized I could no longer touch my toes. I also discovered I didn’t have the same range of motion when throwing a ball. All these years of sitting at...

  • One Size Does NOT Fit All

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Since the start of this year, I have been suffering from something I have termed “Cricflu.” For fans and followers of the sport of Cricket, this won’t be much of a surprise, since it was the year of the World Cup. India’s victory...

  • Using Consumer Technology to Boost Enterprise Productivity

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Today we are featuring a guest blog post from Tony Scott, our CIO at Microsoft. Tony will be sharing his perspective of how the consumerization of IT can boost productivity. I’m old enough to remember when we used the expression, “I’m...

  • Live From Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference – Enterprises Increase Productivity and Decrease Costs with Office 365

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Los Angeles is buzzing with 12,000 Microsoft partners who are all here to attend the annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). It is these partners who work with you to deploy our products and solutions. Between visiting LA landmarks and celebrity sightings...

  • Cloud Flexibility = Choice for Business

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    We’ve all experienced companies with inflexible policies. The retailer that won’t accept returns. The credit card company that won’t alter its billing dates. The airline that won’t take customer service complaints over the phone...

  • Seven Ways in Which Office 365 Delivers Business-Class Security

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    By now, you probably realize that Microsoft Office 365 can free up time, money, and valued resources. But what about security? Surveys show that security is the no. 1 reason why some enterprises hesitate to move their information into the cloud. Specifically...

  • Transforming the Way Companies Communicate

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    If you’ve been in the workforce for a few decades, you probably remember the office memo. It was the mechanism many enterprises used to communicate with employees before email and the Internet. It had to be typed, copied, and manually distributed...

  • This Week in Review - Microsoft Lync

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up— share your links in the...

  • Endings and Beginnings

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    As the rock band Semisonic once sang, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” I’m sad to say this blog post marks a beginning’s end for me. It will be my final blog post as I leave the Microsoft Enterprise...

  • Today’s Enterprise Business Challenges – Get Ready…

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    When I was in college, I didn’t like to write papers, and often procrastinated until the last minute. By last minute, I don’t mean the night before. I mean just a couple hours before the paper was due. Sure, I’d spend all week stressing...

  • Turning on the Office 365 Faucet

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    One of my favorite things about camping is that it enhances my appreciation of all the day-to-day luxuries I normally take for granted. After a few days roughing it in a tent, it’s easy to appreciate even the small amenities like turning on lights...

  • Evaluating the True Cost-Value of Office 365

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    After my wife spent an afternoon shoe shopping, she came home with a pair of “must have” designer shoes. “Do you like them?” she asked. “Yes,” I replied, as she pulled them out of her Nordstrom shopping bag. I cringed...

  • No More Stuffing Your Software Under Your Mattress!

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Ever hear the stories of people stuffing their money under their mattress? As strange as it may sound, people actually thought that was the safest place for their money 80 years ago. I must admit, this didn’t sound like a bad idea to me two years...

  • This is getting personal: Volkswagen Group of America & Microsoft Lync

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Today we are featuring a guest blog post from Angus Norton, Microsoft General Manager of Information Worker Marketing (United States). Angus will be discussing how using Microsoft Lync is driving productivity at Volkswagen Group of America. ...

  • This Week in Review - The Future of the Cloud

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Welcome to another round of featured news items from around the web. Each week, we handpick articles for our community related to cloud and enterprise technology. We welcome your suggestions for next week’s round-up— share your links in the...

  • A Hybrid Approach to Driving … and to the Cloud

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    A couple years ago, a friend of mine bought a brand new gas-guzzling SUV. Yet now that the price of gas is shooting up at the pump, he really wishes he had bought a Toyota Prius. There’s no easy way to convert his SUV into a hybrid vehicle. And...

  • The First and Best Customer of Our Own Products

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    Today we are featuring a guest blog post from Tony Scott, our CIO at Microsoft. One of the best things about being the CIO at Microsoft is helping the company develop great products for our customers. The Microsoft IT organization is Microsoft’s...

  • Core CAL Changes: What They Mean for the Enterprise

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Sean Kapoor}
    We recently changed our Core Client Access License (CAL) here at Microsoft. Mary-Jo Foley wrote an insightful article on ZDNet about these changes – thank you Mary-Jo for helping us all understand the changes. For those of you who are not familiar...