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The Nobel Prize winning physicist Niels Bohr observed that technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. He also predicted that the exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Microsoft Office is a testament to this staggering pace of technological...

UPDATE (10/15/12): Responding to customer complaints, Google last week announced that it will delay the change to its file exporting functionality until Jan. 31, 2013. “ We recognize that some of our customers would like more time before the change goes into effect, ” Google said in a blog...

It’s been said that: “People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped.” We all know people who see things as black-and-white, who view the world in over-simplistic terms. By taking an all or nothing view of the world, we miss the shades of...

As the English philosopher John Locke once said: “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” If Google’s actions at the recent I/O conference are any indication, its enterprise customers just aren’t a priority. The Google I/O developer...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Wins Best of Tech Ed Award A first-of-its-kind solution developed by Riverbed in partnership with Akamai Technologies is Best of TechEd Award winner in...

Outages will happen, whether we use applications managed by a supplier in the cloud, or use applications managed by in-house, IT staff. Some of the news lately has been about Google Apps' service outages. Yet, if we have tools to be productive in our workday, cloud service outages aren’t as painful...

Critical, confidential information like your customer list is your lifeline in business. You would do everything you can to safeguard it. Yet, in our increasingly social, Web-connected world, keeping your information private goes against Google’s interest in indexing everything for search. After...

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...

Today we hear from Thomas Rizzo, CIO at Contoso , a manufacturing firm headquartered near Seattle. Lured by promises of “proven cost savings,” a year ago today we switched all 1,200 Contoso employees to Google Apps for Business. Finally, we’ve decided enough is enough. Yes, you’ve...

As part of the Real World in the Cloud series, we spoke to Andy Springer, Co-Founder and Director at Rookie Recruits, about why, after adopting Google Apps web services, Rookie Recruits quickly switched to Microsoft Office 365. Here’s what he had to say. Q: Please tell us about...

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...

When I share an email or a document with a colleague and ask for their confidentiality, I trust that they won’t share the information with others. Yet information that is particularly business- sensitive tends to be quite interesting, so we learn in the press when people are tempted to break the...

It’s a great day for Office 365 customers! Today, Microsoft announced new capabilities and trial availability for customers in 22 additional markets around the world. For a list of countries where Office 365 is newly available see Office 365 adds 22 Additional Markets, New Features and Continues...

On Monday, Google is hosting Atmosphere, their conference to convince CIOs to buy Google Apps. In the run up to the event, they’ve been briefing reporters, and because I’ve been pretty vocal ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) about the gaps in Google’s strategy, I’ve been getting some calls too. Of...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Office 365 Updates Begin to Percolate Through Microsoft's Line-Up Pieces of Microsoft’s promised fourth-quarter Office 365 update are beginning to manifest themselves via various Microsoft...

The wind is blowing, and I think I hear a howl. After all, Google customers are not finding tools they have been using over the years. The tools are dead and buried . The ad company spooked Inc.’s Erik Markowitz as well. In tiptoeing past the Google Graveyard he quotes Google regarding...

Binary Tree , a leading provider of cross-platform messaging migration and coexistence software and a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, has helped over 5,000 customers around the world to migrate more than 20,000,000 users. In this guest blog, Binary Tree Co-CEO Henry Bestritsky shares his thoughts on...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles that you might have missed. Enjoy this week's selections. MetaVis Announces Office 365 and SharePoint Permissions Management Tool MetaVis Technologies, Inc. today announced MetaVis Security Manager for SharePoint and Office 365, which allows users...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles that you might have missed. Enjoy this week's selections. Office 365 BPOS to Office 365 Transitions Start in September 2011 The software giant is gearing up to work closely with existing BPOS customers in order to ensure that the migration to Office...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles that you might have missed. Enjoy this week's selections. Microsoft Muscles Past Expectations Wall Street had high hopes for Microsoft's latest financials, and the company did not disappoint. Fueled by a strong PC upgrade cycle, it turned in a record...

In today's post we hear from D&L Representatives Payee Services on why Microsoft was the best decision for their business in their move off Google Apps to embrace business-ready cloud computing! "What we get for a total of $12 a month is really priceless: instant availability...

Based on the news coming today from our Worldwide Partner conference, it’s clear that businesses of all sizes are eager to experience firsthand the benefits of Office 365. In the 13 days since we launched the service more than 50,000 organizations have started trials of Office 365. That means...

As part of the Real World with Microsoft Online Services series, we spoke to Kevin Yearick, Director of Network Services at Grady Health System, about why, after evaluating several cloud-based solutions, Grady chose the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite from Microsoft Online Services to manage...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles that you may have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections: Customer Focus: Microsoft Signs Statewide Cloud Deal with Delaware Schools The Delaware Department of Education has chosen a cloud-based suite of easy-to-use services from Microsoft...

Each week, we round up industry news and articles that you may have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections: Municipio de Humacao Moves to the Cloud Microsoft COO Touts the “Cloud” in Puerto Rico Microsoft is pushing aggressively into cloud computing for businesses — and...