My name is Andrew Kisslo and I am Sr. Product Manager with Microsoft Online. I've recently joined the Cloud Services Expert blog roll and am really excited about the opportunity to share my thoughts and insights about Microsoft's cloud strategy.   I am also honored to share blogging space with Steve Clayton, Jim Glynn and Brett Hill et al. 

As part of the team delivering Online Services (SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, WebApps, etc), I am at the center of "All In" for Microsoft's strategy to deliver cloud based solutions for our commercial customers. You can find my original "All In" blog that I was honored (slightly embarred too!) that Mary Jo Foley called 'coherent and plausible explanation'.  I often write about the competition as a matter of comparative dialogue as I think it's only in comparisons do you find the answers that may be meaningful for your selection criteria.   You can find me blogging on TechNet on the WhyMicrosoft blog as well as on Twitter.  

It's hard to believe but I've been involved with ‘cloud' for almost 15 years.  My first experience out of undergraduate involved working in London at Ziff-Davis supporting ‘banner ads' which were a radical new radical medium for  advertising. How far we've come.   In fact, the office next to me was a small group of folks launching something called ‘Yahoo.co.uk' a year after they were incorporated.     I later joined Pandesic, an SAP/Intel start up that was one the first Application Service Providers (ASP's become SaaS in effect).  We were very early pioneers trying to push the envelope on subscription business models, multitenant architectures and ‘real time' ecommerce. 

I look forward to sharing my thoughts on Microsoft's approach to the cloud.