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  • Blog Post: WPC 2010: We're all In!

    Thomas Rizzo
    First, let me introduce myself. I'm Tom Rizzo and I work in the Online Services group here at Microsoft. You may know the Online Services team as the Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) team. Before working in this group, I worked in the SharePoint product management team and before that the...
    on 20 Jul 2010

  • Blog Post: Top 5 Questions to Ask Google

    Ron Markezich
    There is no question that being CIO is a demanding role that has been made more difficult by facing tough decisions about cloud solutions. Two weeks ago, I shared five key themes I consistently hear from business leaders who are considering moving their business to the cloud. As a follow up, here are...
    on 22 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/7/2012

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Webjet Adopts Office 365, Windows Azure Webjet, Australia’s largest online travel booking website, selects Office 365 “because it differentiates itself from the competition with...
    on 7 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: School Facilitates eLearning with Cloud Communications

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Today we hear from Salesian School of Hong Kong on why testing Office 365 for an eLearning application was the best decision for their school after using Google Docs! “We did not have the compatibility issues with Office Web Apps that we had with Google Docs. There is no loss...
    on 2 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Top 3 Reasons Schools Choose Office 365 over Google Apps

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    As graduation caps flew into the air last week, other students earned a long, summer break from studying and raced their bikes to the corner store, or headed down to the lake. The luckiest students will return this autumn to schools that choose Office 365 for education. I’ll tell you why. Schools...
    on 26 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Comparing Office Suites - Steering Wheel or HandleBars?

    akisslo
    Steering Wheels for a Reason For arguments sake, let's say you are deciding on a new car. You likely expect the car to have basic features like four wheels, an engine, seats and a steering wheel etc. Did it ever occur to you to make sure the seats are adjustable? Or if the steering wheel can tilt...
    on 23 Aug 2010

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 10/19/2012

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft Office Is Still an Important Enterprise App: 10 Reasons Why Ten reasons why Microsoft Office remains the most important productivity suite in the enterprise. Office Reaches RTM...
    on 19 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Village of Schaumburg Eases Email Integration with Exchange Online; Dismisses Google Apps

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Organizations in the public sector also see the value and benefits of moving to the cloud. In today’s post we hear from the Village of Schaumburg on why Microsoft was the best decision for their business in their move off Lotus Notes and embrace cloud computing! “We looked...
    on 28 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Email Has Come a Long Way, Baby

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    It’s amazing to think just how far email has come since Ray Tomlinson hit the send button on the first network email on behalf of MIT in 1971. Over the next two-and-a-half decades, it evolved to become a form of communication used by millions of users, surpassing snail mail and the fax as the business...
    on 13 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: My New Year's Resolutions for 2012

    Thomas Rizzo
    I’m all about self-improvement and this time of year, there’s nothing like a few good resolutions to motivate me to change for the better. I care about excellence in the productivity tools people use every day. So, in my annual tradition, I’ve made these New Year's Resolutions for 2012...
    on 4 Jan 2012

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/21/2012

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Small businesses can now get 90 day free trial of Office 365 Small businesses with up to 10 users can now get a 90-day free trial of the Microsoft Office 365 suite. FICCI migrates to Microsoft...
    on 21 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/30/2012

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Barilla Selects Microsoft Office 365 Italian food company Barilla Group selects Office 365 to manage the interaction among employees in its branch offices, production plants and on the road...
    on 30 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Bigger Than The Beatles and Google’s Crush on Office Get Serious

    akisslo
    Imagine if you filled up Wembley Stadium (82K seats) and the Rose Bowl (100K seats) with a totally new audience every day for 100 days straight. You would be on pace to be one of the most successful attractions ever. Well, today we announced that the Office Web Apps have been used by over 20 million...
    on 21 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: Reinventing the Retail Customer Experience with Office 365

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Today’s omni-channel customers are more connected than ever before. With so much information readily available, consumers can easily research products wherever they are via their mobile devices, check on a store’s reputation, compare prices right in the aisles, and ultimately choose to buy...
    on 24 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: PC, Phone, Browser - 90 Seconds to Why Microsoft

    akisslo
    I recently read the CIO Magazine "State of the CIO" survey. What I found interesting was that 63% of CIO respondents said 'improving end-user workforce productivity' would be the one of the most significant accomplishments in the year ahead. So f or the upcoming release of Office/SharePoint 2010, we...
    on 2 Apr 2010

  • Blog Post: LiveRoute Migrates Over 40 Middle East Companies to Office 365

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Today’s guest blogger is Faisal Zafar, director of operations for LiveRoute, a Dubai-based technology company that delivers IT solutions to companies throughout the Middle East. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, LiveRoute was the first cloud solution provider in the Middle East region. From the...
    on 20 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Growing Business Uses Online Tools to Add Flexibility, Teach in More Classrooms

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Companies of all sizes, all around the world are moving to the cloud. In today’s post we hear from Imagination Yoga on why Microsoft was the best decision for their business in their move to expand and embrace cloud computing! Imagination Yoga United States-based Imagination Yoga , the brainchild...
    on 28 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Real World with Microsoft Online Services: Interview with Jake Harris, Director of IT at Aisle7

    akisslo
    As part of the Real World with Microsoft Online Services customer series, we 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...
    on 15 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: PTG Migrates More Than 250 Customers to Microsoft Office 365 in the Last 12 Months

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Today’s guest blogger is Reed Wilson, founder and president of Palmetto Technology Group (PTG). PTG is a Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner and Tier 3 Cloud Champion that provides business technology solutions that enhance productivity and increase profitability (including Microsoft Office 365...
    on 25 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Government and Health IT Group Promotes Best Practices via Online Collaboration Solution

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Governments and public organizations are making the move to cloud computing, realizing the immense benefits that it has to offer. In today’s post we hear from the SERCH on why Microsoft was the best decision in their move off Google Groups and in embracing cloud computing! “SharePoint...
    on 25 May 2011

  • Blog Post: Why Flexibility Matters

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    I’m all about saving gas. But if I were to buy a new car, it wouldn’t be an all-electric car. It would be a plug-in hybrid. Why? In a word-- flexibility. I may not always be somewhere where I can plug in my car and recharge the battery. And when I’m not, I don’t want to be...
    on 3 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Google: "...Not Appropriate for Business"

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    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...
    on 30 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 2/8/2013

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. 7 Reasons Why You Should Buy Microsoft’s New Version of Office Seven reasons why people will want to buy the new Office 365 Home Premium Edition subscription plan. Toyota North America...
    on 8 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Headlines or Customers?

    akisslo
    Since we announced that the beta of Office 2010 has been downloaded by over 5 million times, it's been a busy week for the press. Despite this impressive milestone, which is equivalent to every man, woman and child in the city limits of both Paris and Los Angeles electing to go download a copy in the...
    on 1 Apr 2010

  • Blog Post: Make Google Talk Straight to You

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    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...
    on 29 Mar 2011