Are You Missing Something Important?

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Collate — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:56:52 GMT

@Tony: Yes, but it does not allow me to share parts of my spreadsheet data. That is why I spoke about CollateBox.. Well you can now check it out here http://bit.ly/OFyFRp

John

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Al Trewthe — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:21:03 GMT

Guess something IS missing Tom, it's YOU! It appears you left Microsoft behind and ran off with Amazon. Say it ain't so, Tom!?! Say it ain't so.

www.pingzine.com/amazon-snags-office-365-vet-as-ec2-gm-16255

I guess mojo and style matter don't matter to much to you anymore :(

@Tony Tai - now it's up to you to fight this fight on your own! We are all counting on you big fella!

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Tony Tai - MSFT — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:42:31 GMT

@Mackenzie: In this demo, you will see completely different results when viewing the same document using the Microsoft web app and using Google Documents.(http://bit.ly/xK3kz8) We saved the same Word file on Windows Live SkyDrive or SharePoint) and Google Apps. The circles highlight key file integrity differences when viewing the file through Word Web App and viewing it with Google Documents.

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Mackenzie — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:34:19 GMT

You know, it is funny that you post this. Something like a simple table in a .docx file is better formatted in Google Docs than Office Web Apps. twitter.com

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Tony Tai - MSFT — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:02:22 GMT

@Funny: You might not know that Office is based on the OpenXML standard. Office is also the largest deployment for the ODF standard, which public sector clients commonly require. Google Docs, on the other hand, is based on a proprietary standard.

Through Office 365, business customers can enable the best cloud security today (http://bit.ly/vZ6bNj) and use the best communications today (http://bit.ly/qkrVmc). With Offfice 365, your business works with a trusted provider which shares its cloud practices very publicly, including where your data resides, who can access it and what we do with it (http://bit.ly/zgxl2F).

We know in speaking with customers that companies which have invested in fluency with tools are not typically interested in a "rip and replace" approach, wholly abandoning investments which help them daily. Many Office 365 customers are small businesses (http://bit.ly/omcbco) leveraging Office 365 in part because of its value and wide range of capabilities. Enterprises (http://bit.ly/xRbO1O) are attracted to the Office 365 E plan which includes Office Professional Plus, as well as the flexibility, potential savings (http://bit.ly/wcoWq4), capabilities, and value coming from cloud deployment in Office 365.

Yes, while Office 365 includes Exchange Online, you may not have heard that Office 365 includes SharePoint Online for document sharing and collaboration, Lync Online for IM, presence and conferencing, and Office Web Apps. In discussing alternate email implementations, Matt Cain of Gartner states: “Organizations are also looking for systems with the ability to meet specific security, content control and application integration needs.” (http://bit.ly/tPu10a). Unlike other cloud providers, Microsoft offers a range of Office 365 packages (http://bit.ly/xO5jav) so an organization can suit their specific needs.

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Funny — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:08:45 GMT

This is what happens when old, slow to respond, companies get desperate. I'll say it again, MS is selling to the IT crowd of yesteryear, not to the the IT users of tomorrow. The users of tomorrow are Facebook and Twitter users where change just happens. And, as usual, MS's blog post is full of false information. First, Office 365 is not even a real "Cloud" solution; wake up people, it's nothing more a hosted Exchange environment. Don't believe me? Ask people who are running BPOS how their "transition" to O365 is going! I find MS's point laughable.

Expertise: bashing Google for, in less than 5 years, building what took MS 10+ years. And why is MS now playing catch up with O365 and trying to be more like Google?

Trust: Does MS really think people trust them?

Flexibility: You do not have to get rid of your on-premise applications; that is more MS fodder. MS wants to claim they are flexible, than why are so many customers pigeon holed into having to use Office? Oh, because it's not open and extensible...i.e. not flexible

Privacy: MS just doesn't understand; the Google Enterprise TOS and so forth are not the same as Consumer. Google cannot/will not use any of your data...period. Something you should know about O365 though, according to their TOS, they, or their partners, reserve the right to move your data at any time without notifying you, the consumer. Why are MS partners accessing "your data"?

Enabling Quality of Work: Again, any fidelity issues people have with Office are due to MS, not the other vendors. Open Office, Google, etc all have fidelity issues with MS products because MS does not use standards openly; open your eyes customers, again, you have been shoe horned into HAVING to use Office.

MS is threatened by anything that takes revenue away from Office; anyone that knows MS knows that is where they make the majority of their money. Don't believe it? Than why do you still have to have Office Professional in order to have full "fidelity and functionality" with Office 365?

Think for yourself customers and use your brains...

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Sam — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:13:28 GMT

Hi John, I checked out this site called CollateBox (http://www.collatebox.com) referred here in your comment. It looks quite innovative and after reading their blog posts I think it will be a dropbox + evernote for excel and Google docs data. I registered for the beta access and they promised to show me a one-to-one demo.

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Tony Tai - MSFT — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:35:07 GMT

@The New Generation, @Derik: Yes, Derik, I agree that the case study discusses migration for their public sector team.

Like I do, student and business users of today and tomorrow take advantage of Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud productivity service which incorporates email, IM, document collaboration, video conferencing, shared calendars and email services, available in the cloud. Microsoft offers alternatives for those who want to work with cloud services, desktop tools, or some of each. Office 365 works from anywhere: at school, at home, from a mobile device, or at work (http://bit.ly/xO5jav). Here is some of the latest news about schools (http://bit.ly/xwmYeC) and businesses (http://bit.ly/xRbO1O) using the cloud service, and on switching to its Office Web Apps (http://bit.ly/wLm2K0).

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

The New Generation — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:38:12 GMT

As a parent of a high school and college student, I can say that they have no interest in client software. They use, and prefer, Google Docs. It just works from any device and from anywhere (at school, home or on the road). Sorry Microsoft, they see your model as outdated and are just not interested.

re: Are You Missing Something Important?

Derik — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:08:22 GMT

@Tony, you might be interested in knowing that I worked for Quest Software up until December and they were in no way running a "Cloud based email system", so that is incorrect...I know that whole Quest team, and that White Paper is for their Public Sector team, which is very small, so you cannot say all of Quest has migrated, it's misleading.

I don't disagree that people are used to using Office, neither does Google, but when customers get in and take a look at Google Docs; their reaction is "huh, this is almost the same as office." See, Microsoft is just marketing to people that are "traditional" IT consumers; the users of tomorrow, you know, the future, are used to things like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc; they are not afraid of change and are much more tech savvy. Continuing to rely on, and market to, "people who are used to using Office" is very short sited. You know what people that don't want to learn new technology, or a new way of thinking, do? They great you at the door of your local mega-store

Oh, and I wouldn't say these users are "happy with what they have" but feel free to think they are ;)