As expected, today Microsoft had discontinued Office Live Small Business (“OLSB”) replacing the offering with Office365. Office365 provides business and consumers with basic productivity suite of products including limited functionality Office Webpps. According to Microsoft, they have done everything they could to provide Office Live Small Business users with...

Over the past several days, we have reviewed updated pricing and features included with each Office365 plan, from Professionals and Small Business to Enterprise (Plan P). While new prices are competitive, Microsoft is still behind Google Apps offering. Google offers its online productivity suite for $50 per user per year. We...

To buy, or not to by: that is the question. It is a New iPad day. My guess is that millions of people will pre-order the New iPad, and many already have. First of all why the name “New iPad” and not iPad 3? Is there something that Apple does not...

Today, Computerworld published a good article by Shane O'Neill titled "Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps" The author of the article, based on customer testimonials, explains why Winston-Salem selected Microsoft hosted Outlook over Google Apps. While I have touched on this point many times over, for every business...

Several hours ago, Google started sending emails to Google Apps users introducing Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office. The email provides an overview of the Cloud Connect concept and includes a direct download link for the Cloud Connect plugin.

Based on Microsoft’s official press release, the company has launched a new cloud platform Microsoft Office 365. The new brand includes all features of Microsoft BPOS, i.e. Exchange Online, SharePoint Online,  as well as ever green Office desktop application such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint a.k.a. Office Web Apps,...

As a conclusion following a series of Microsoft BPOS outages over the past several weeks, on September 8th, Microsoft issued a statement on Microsoft Online Services Team Blog apologizing for recent outages that affected customers that use Microsoft hosted services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. By issuing...

Thanks to yet another report by ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley, we keep learning about new occurrences of Microsoft BPOS outages following reports. According to the source, majority of Microsoft hosted services outages affect Exchange Online, Microsoft’s hosted Exchange service. By not addressing these issues swiftly, Microsoft is playing a dangerous game toying with consumer...

Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet reports that Microsoft customers once again experience an outage of Microsoft BPOS hosted services for second time in a month. The outage lasted for approximately 90 minutes which is significant considering that during that time BPOS customers were unable to access their email, SharePoint site...

It seems that Microsoft cloud platform, BPOS is not immune to outages and is not as stable as they made us believe having bashed Google for outages associated with Google Apps services. On Monday August 23, 2010, Microsoft cloud services were inaccessible for approximately 2-hours. Read the full story...