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  • Blog Post: Real World in the Cloud: Interview with Andy Springer of Rookie Recruits

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    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...
    on 26 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: GW Computadores to Move 50 Clients to Office 365 by Mid-2013

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Today’s guest blogger is André Henrique Buss, owner of GW Computadores, a technology consulting firm that specializes in cloud-based infrastructures. Headquartered in Blumenau, Brazil, the firm works with small- and medium-size businesses in Brazil. Today, there really isn’t a good...
    on 2 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: The Hidden Google Tax

    Thomas Rizzo
    This is the time when many people in the United States are receiving a federal tax refund. Many of us worked hard to get a refund, hunting down receipts, and accounting for all possible tax deductions. No one would willingly give the IRS more than they owe, or submit to taxes they weren’t...
    on 4 May 2011

  • Blog Post: City of St. Augustine Beach is More Efficient with Cloud Services

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Organizations all around the world are making the move to cloud computing to take advantage of immense benefits.Today we hear from City of St. Augustine Beach on why Microsoft was their best decision, as they sought new efficiencies in moving to the cloud. “When we looked at the...
    on 5 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Growing Firm Plans to Save 30 Hours a Day and Avoid $100,000 a Year with Office 365

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Today we hear from Travelers Haven on why Office 365 was the best choice in their decision to embrace cloud computing! “I knew that cloud-based computing was the way that businesses would operate in the future. I didn’t bother looking at Google, because everyone who we hire...
    on 29 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 8/19/2011

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    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...
    on 19 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Protecting Sensitive Government Data

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Governments wondering if Google Apps would meet their security requirements need look no further than the City of Los Angeles. Last December, the city pulled its police department out of a planned move to Google Apps for Government after concluding that it did not meet the FBI’s Criminal Justice...
    on 31 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Firm Moves from Google Gmail to Microsoft Office 365 to Improve Customer Service

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    In today’s post we hear from C&I Engineering on why Microsoft was the best decision for their business in their move off Gmail to embrace business-ready cloud computing! “Whatever problem the business faces, Office 365 gives me a complete set of tools for solving it...
    on 12 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 10/26/2012

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Windows 8 review: A big, beautiful, slightly shaky step forward Windows 8: “The touchscreen actions are a huge gain for usability, and the interface is gorgeous.” Microsoft Surface...
    on 26 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 4/20/2012

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. India Hires Microsoft in 'Largest Cloud Deployment Ever' AICTE sought the services also of IBM and Google, which has a competing Google Apps for Education service, but settled on Microsoft...
    on 20 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 10/14/2011

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Environmental Building Strategies Migrates to Office 365 as Green Approach to IT Management With appropriate layers of security, reliability, and compliance, it delivers a cost-effective subscription...
    on 14 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Convenient for Google, Not Good for Business

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    As we prepare for the launch of Office 365, I wanted to know what practices Google has in place to serve its business customers. What I found was that some of Google’s practices are convenient for their company and not truly customer-centric. A good example is their tools and support lifecycles...
    on 15 Jun 2011

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/2/2011

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft: Office 365 a Hit, Especially with Small Businesses Office 365, Microsoft's cloud collaboration and communication suite for organizations, is selling eight times faster than its predecessor...
    on 2 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: Office 365 = Saved Time + Saved Money for Small Businesses

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    As a small business owner, you’re probably used to making trade-offs—work-life balance for business growth, predictability for entrepreneurship. Sound familiar? And of all the trade-offs, there’s no bigger compromise than the one between time and money. Either spend the time doing...
    on 22 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 7/8/2011

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles that you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. The Microsoft Advantage Microsoft Adds Co-Authoring Feature to Word Web App "When you're co-authoring, you always have a real time view into who is making changes and where these changes...
    on 8 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: Look Before You Leap

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Top Resources on Why Microsoft Website: Part 2 of 3 Last week in part 1 of the Top Resources on the Why Microsoft web site: “ Office Web Apps vs. Google Docs - See for Yourself ” we illustrated that when you use Google Apps to open a Word document in the cloud and share with others, part...
    on 21 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 10/5/2012

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Toyota Going All In with Microsoft's Office 365 Toyota is making Office 365 available to its 200,000 employees worldwide. Microsoft Office Announces Affordable Cloud-Based Solutions The...
    on 5 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Whither art thou, Google Apps offline?

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    It’s been a cool summer in Redmond, and we’ve been working hard preparing some pleasant surprises for the next quarterly release of Office 365, developing features to improve enterprise productivity. Looking back, I recall Google’s Senior VP of Chrome, Sundar Pichai, mentioning that...
    on 30 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/18/2011

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft Office 365 and Doing Business in the Cloud Launched globally at the end of June this year, Office 365 represents a radical move by software giant Microsoft to shift its premium productivity...
    on 18 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 2/3/2012

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. RIM Releases BlackBerry Service for Office 365 RIM's BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 enables synchronization and management, using Microsoft ActiveSync to connect...
    on 3 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Engineering Firm Avoids Costs and Improves Productivity with Microsoft Hosted Services

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    In today’s post we hear from Zyvex Technologies on why Microsoft hosted services, including SharePoint Online and Office 365, were the best selections for their business in their move to cloud computing! “We decided on cloud-based services from Microsoft, because employees...
    on 27 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Rakuten Chooses Microsoft Office 365 over Google Apps to Trim Costs and Reduce IT Burden

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Internet services company Rakuten needed to improve its messaging environment to support rapid expansion and decided to adopt Microsoft Office 365, after evaluating Google Apps. We recently spoke to Jonathan Levine, Executive Officer and Vice Executive Director at Rakuten, to learn why: ...
    on 13 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: 7 First-Year Successes of Office 365

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    At the Worldwide Partner Conference last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicted that this will be “the most epic year in Microsoft history.” I couldn’t agree more. And, in my opinion, one of the key products and services that will contribute to the epic year that...
    on 7 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Banking Corporation Provides Unified Communications with Cloud-Based, Office 365 Services

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Today we learn from 1st Source Bank on why Microsoft was the best decision for their business in their move off Novell Groupwise to embrace cloud computing! “With Lync Online, we can retire the WebEx service and our internal videoconferencing systems. We also expect to reduce...
    on 19 Sep 2011

  • Blog Post: Cloud-Based File Sharing Gives Police Force Secure, 24/7 Access

    Tony Tai - MSFT
    Organizations all around the world are enjoying great benefits from cloud computing. Today we learn from the Dutch National Police on why Microsoft Office 365 was the best decision for their organization in their move to embrace the cloud, instead of choosing Google Apps! "Nothing is...
    on 27 Feb 2012