The recent outage Microsoft suffered with its Hotmail and Office 365 suite has raised some concerns across the industry. The concern stems from the fact that many have been pushing the Cloud as a way to avoid such outages.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that its new cloud office suite was now available. According to the company, “It brings together Office, SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync in an always-up-to-date cloud service.” There are different monthly subscription levels depending on the size of your enterprise.
Microsoft has a new cloud computing setup called Office 365, and it was just released in public beta. Along with Office 365 is Office 365 Marketplace that offers additional apps and services for use with the program.
Microsoft has been working on its cloud computing products and marketing for a while now. In the crowded cloud of Google Docs, Zoho, Yahoo, Rackspace, Salesforce and Amazon to name a few, Microsoft is banking on its name and proven desktop solutions to bring in cloud computing sales. So far it is working.
According to reports Microsoft may be in for another big corporate shakeup which may be announced this month. This comes only a few months after a major reshuffling back in October.
Microsoft has formally launched Lync, a software suite designed to make it easier for businesses to integrate multiple forms of communications. It claims the average company would make back the cost of the suite in increased efficiency within a year.
Microsoft has revised Hotmail security measures to reduce the dangers of account hijacking. It’s also adding closer integration to Facebook and LinkedIn for Windows Live.
Google has demonstrated its latest weapon in the bid to capture Office users that might have been tempted by the online edition of the suite. It’s working on a ribbon for Office that makes it much easier to transfer documents between Microsoft’s desktop application and Google Docs.
Microsoft and Google are both bidding to provide online e-mail services to a major federal agency. It comes as Google missed a deadline for similar services in Los Angeles.
Back in the day, Microsoft and Apple were the big rivals in an ongoing war of words. Now, with Apple seemingly paired off with Adobe in the argument stakes, Microsoft seems more involved in public disputes with Google.
Microsoft sent out an email yesterday announcing the upgrade of Windows Live Workspace. The service is now called Windows Live SkyDrive. You get most of the features of Live Workspace with a few added features.
The long-awaited Office Web apps have now gone live and are available to people resident in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Ireland. And the best thing about this office suite in the cloud is that it’s all free.
The University of Arizona has chosen Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite for use by their faculty and staff. The suite is a cloud computing method of connecting faculty and staff and encouraging collaboration. It will also move communications at the University into the 21st century.
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