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  • Why are Businesses Leaving Google Apps?

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Security Concerns. Hidden Costs. Document Fidelity. Marketing Hype. No Support. Lack of Roadmap. Oh My! (NOTE: this is a duplicate entry from previous week due to blog platform migration at Microsoft) These are a few of the reasons that the...

  • 700,000 inboxes in the Bluegrass State are "All In" - Kentucky Dept. of Education moves to Microsoft cloud services

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Today, we are excited to announce that the Department of Education in the Commonwealth of Kentucky has gone live with Microsoft's Live@edu solution. With more than 700,000 people , this is one of the largest cloud deployments in the world! Schools in...

  • Reading Tea Leaves - Weather Predictions for the Cloud

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Catching up on a set of industry news there were two articles recently that caught my eye as significant and worth summarizing. The Next Four Years According to IDC The first was Frank Gens blog over at IDC where he summarized their new forecast...

  • Leaving Google Apps for Microsoft Online - Two New Examples

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Today we've publish two more case studies that highlight how customers have answered the question "Why Microsoft?" Building on our previous post about customers 'Leaving Google Apps', both customer interviews both provide continued examples of why Google...

  • Codelco is "All In" with Microsoft Online - Mining the Cloud for Savings

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Codelco, the world's largest copper mining company is 'All In' with BPOS! Today on the MS Online blog we are proud to provide a guest post by Marco Orellana, CIO of Codelco. You can also watch a great video interview between Marco and Chris Capossela...

  • I Have Met the Meme and it is Cloud!

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    We just wrapped up our annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), held in Washington, D.C. where thousands of partners from over 100 countries came to participate in this years meme 'Cloud Computing'. If you haven't seen any of the coverage or watched...

  • University of Arizona Picks Microsoft's Cloud

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Today we are proud to announce that the University of Arizona has selected Microsoft Online as the messaging and collaboration platform for all faculty and staff. Earlier in the month I highlighted the fact that 10,000 institutions on every continent...

  • New Zealand Rugby Union picks Microsoft Cloud

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    If you've never seen the NZ All Blacks Rugby Haka, it's truly one of the great events in any competitive sport. (see video below). So we are proud this week to announce a win for BPOS with The New Zealand Rugby Union. As one of New Zealand’s...

  • Three Big Wins for Microsoft Cloud Services

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Today at our annual Financial Analyst's Meeting (FAM) we announced that The Dow Chemical Co., Hyatt Hotels Corporation and the University of Georgia have each selected Microsoft cloud solutions. If you'd like to watch any of Executive keynotes, please...

  • Aisle7 Talks About Why They Switched to Microsoft’s Cloud Applications

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    We recently talked to Jake Harris, Director of IT at Aisle7, about replacing Google Apps with the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, which includes Microsoft Exchange Online. Here's what he had to say. Q: Tell us about the Aisle7 business...

  • Have you Heard about the Minnesota Deal and the Other Cool Stuff going on with Microsoft’s Cloud?

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by JRG_MSFT}
    If you're reading this post, you're probably interested in the cloud and hopefully in Microsoft Online Services and BPOS in particular. I wanted to take a couple of minutes to highlight some of the great things happening with Microsoft's cloud offerings...

  • Center Parcs Goes with Microsoft Online - Interview with Christian Kuttler, Dir. of Information and Communication Technology

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    As part of the Real World Microsoft Online Services series, we spoke to Christian Kuttler, Director of Information and Communication Technology at Center Parcs, about replacing Google Apps with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite...

  • Office 365 and The Family Tree - Leadership

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Today we are excited to announce, Office 365, a new brand of cloud services that I believe will lead customers to increase their adoption of cloud services. For the official news of the day, I recommend you visit our event site . Go sign up for the BETA...

  • Two More Customers Pick Microsoft Over Google

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by akisslo}
    Over the last several weeks, I've been proud to highlight why customers of all sizes, geographies and industries have picked Microsoft over Google Apps. Some have left Google after realizing 'it's more pony than horse' , others gave it a test drive and...

  • Clearing my cloudiness

    Posted over 5 years ago
    by Steve_Clayton}
    Hi….is this thing on? Hi….I’m Steve lets dispense with the rambling history of my life and do this in the tried and trusted, 10 things list to help clear the clouds on who I am and why I’m here. Steve Clayton, at Microsoft for 12 years, currently Director...

  • Hello World

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by JRG_MSFT}
    Hi everyone, I'm writing this post to introduce myself, and let you know who you're dealing with. My name is Jim Glynn and I've been working in the high-tech/information technology field for about 25 years. I've been at Microsoft for the last 12 of...

  • Cloudburst

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by bposguy}
    From time to time a storm sweeps across the IT landscape and transforms the landscape. We've seen this before with the PC, the Windows operating system, the internet, and object oriented programming to name a few. There have been a lot of other technologies...

  • Valentine’s Weekend Collaboration

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by JRG_MSFT}
    I had to go to Bainbridge Island for work last Friday afternoon. It was Valentine’s Day weekend, so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and invite my wife. She, of course, decided to invite our dog. Speaking of dogs, my team is dogfooding the Microsoft...

  • Recent chats on Cloud services at Toolbox.com and TechTarget.com

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by bposguy}
    Last week, I played answer guy to a couple of chats about Microsoft's clould services on two popular websites. I wasn't expecting a big crowd and was pleasantly surprised as they were well attended and there were a lot of great questions. Questions...

  • Ballmer says Microsoft is “All In” with the Cloud

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by Steve_Clayton}
    Steve Ballmer spoke at the University of Washington this afternoon on Microsoft and the cloud. He spoke for a little over an hour with some Q&A at the end and included demos of BingMaps (by Blaise of course) Sky Player on XBOX. He touched on almost...

  • Well! That was fun…

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by JRG_MSFT}
    I participated in the Exchange and SharePoint Online Services Live Chat on Tuesday, Feb 23rd. This event was a first for me. It added a new level of “interrupt-driven” to the usual IM and e-mail traffic that we deal with every day. It’s hard to provide...

  • Cray and Microsoft Join Up to Streamline Cloud Computing

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by bposguy}
    Moving to the cloud requires reframing how a business thinks about its data and services. It's quite a leap to get from having everything on premise where you have total control (and responsibility) to having all or some of your key business services...

  • A Yottabyte you say?

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by Steve_Clayton}
    [credit: The Economist] A lot is the answer as noted above in The Economist . They had a great special report a couple of weeks back on the enormous amounts of data we’re now creating in the digital age. For someone who remembers 5 1/4 inch floppy disks...

  • Exchange Online updated to provide 25GB mailbox by default

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by bposguy}
    Providing online services like BPOS ( http://mocp.microsoftonline.com ) are not like shipping server or client software. Once you cut the bits for on-premise software, they pretty much stay the same for a while. Not so with online services. Microsoft...

  • Ballmer's Bet on the Cloud Receives Rave Reviews

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by JRG_MSFT}
    My boss just took off for Australia and New Zealand. Trying to get everything done before he left absorbed most of my time during the last few weeks, so after he left, I started catching up on my cloud services reading. This has been a busy time for cloud...