Top Resources on Why Microsoft Website: Part 1 of 3 For over two decades, millions of people have been using Microsoft Office to power their businesses. As we move into the cloud computing age, people expect to share and collaborate with their customers...

We announced today that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA ) is ready to go live with the premier productivity cloud solution: Microsoft Online Services. The USDA brings us the food pyramid, organic certification, food safety, and the...

Google recently released Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office. You might have heard some buzz . When the Cloud Connect beta came out in November 2010, people expressed their frustration with the tool's ability to deal with the most straight forward tasks...

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you all have plans to spend time with someone special today. Or, if you forgot, it might be time to make that frantic call to the florist! Either way, be sure not to disappoint those who are special to you....

Those aren't my words, but the words of Chris Dawson over at ZDNet Education ! I couldn't agree more. In fact, he goes on to say: "Bottom line, Microsoft’s Office 365 for Education platform really is the next generation of learning productivity...

Today, the General Services Administration made the decision to replace several different versions of IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino software with Google for its own email. While we are disappointed we will not have the opportunity to meet the GSA's...

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...

2010: The Year in Review 2010 was an outstanding year for Microsoft, our customer and our partners since it was a year filled with great product releases, some amazing customer wins and deployments and also some tremendous partner offerings and...

My New Year's Resolutions This is the time of year when people sit down and reflect on their past year and look to the upcoming year and the changes they will make. In my reflections, I came up with the 10 following New Year's Resolutions: 1...

Real World with Microsoft Online Services: Interview with Andrew Jamieson, Acting CIO, ASPEQ Limited As part of the Real World Microsoft Online Services series, we spoke to Andrew Jamieson, Acting Chief Information Officer at ASPEQ Limited,...

Yesterday, Google announced Cloud Connect, aiming to embrace Microsoft Office as the preferred productivity environment for all Google Apps users. I think this is welcome news for many users who gain another way to share documents in whatever way they...

When Success is a Marathon, Not a Sprint A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts. Steve Prefontaine It takes guts and a lot of hard work to be a successful runner. At my alma mater, University...

I couldn't help but take notice of this article in Forbes not because of their use of my favorite term - Why Microsoft - but one of the customer's highlighted in the article - Bradshaw and Weil . We've worked with Bradshaw and Weil since they looked at...

My name is Tony Tai, and I recently joined the Microsoft Office 365 team. Prior to this role, I managed the SharePoint marketing website , powered by SharePoint2010. It was incredibly fun to roll out the first public facing website on SharePoint 2010’s...

If you haven't seen, Google recently announced a new service for Microsoft Exchange Server: Google Message Continuity for Exchange Server . The folks in the Exchange team posted their thoughts about this new service . To quickly summarize their...

Since our review of Google Cloud Connect, several articles have come to similar findings. The loss of data and the inconsistency of the plug-in have led some to conclude Google Cloud Connect is not-even-version-1 product . Today, let’s take a look...

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...

Thank you, Kanwal. I couldn't have said it better. Today I'm passing on insights from Microsoft MVP, Kanwal Khipple , on his move from Google Apps to Office 365: "Here's a list of what I want, above and beyond what I need, to be productive: Ability...

Jornata is a Microsoft customer and partner, participating in the Office 365 Beta for small businesses. The company gained its first experiences with the Office 365 suite of collaborative tools through the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which...

Metalogix Software has just released Migration Manager for Google Apps for moving Google Docs and Sites content to SharePoint. We spoke with Geordie Henderson, Director of ECM Migration Products at Metalogix about how the product works and the Google...

See How People are Using Office Web Apps! You may have seen my recent post about Collaboration with Office Web Apps to take advantage of sharing/accessing your files virtually anywhere, and collaborating in real time with your colleagues through coauthoring...

Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup! The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community…Enjoy! Top 5 Picks for This Week...

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...

As part of the Real World Microsoft Online Services series, we spoke to Olivier Baldassari, Chief Information Officer at Rexel, and Thomas Huber, Global IT Collaboration Manager at Rexel, about why Rexel chose Microsoft Online Services over Gmail from...

Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup! The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community. For this week, we have handpicked the following...