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...

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...

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...

Microsoft introduced several updates to free Office Apps. Now when you edit a document in Word, you can print the document without having to open it in the desktop application. Read the full story. Quick Poll

Today we will try to answer a question of possible integration between Microsoft CRM Online and Microsoft BPOS.  Recently, more and more business asking this question having adopted either CRM Online or BPOS. It is obvious that every business should try to utilize either fully or partially integrated solutions...

According to various news sources and Microsoft’s website, on Monday November 2, 2009 Microsoft slashed prices on its core SaaS offerings such as BPOS reducing it from $15 per user, per month to $10 per user, per month. In addition, Microsoft now offers six months of free SaaS to...

Today, Microsoft has announced the new capabilities of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) by sending an email to existing BPOS customers. The new capabilities include what Microsoft calls “IM & Presence Awareness,” and includes Microsoft Office Communications Online or simply web-based instant messaging that can be restricted for...

  Friends, Today I am going off-topic because I believe in professional integrity, business ethics, and good business practices. Having been an IT executive for almost two decades, I thought I had seen it all when it comes to questionable competitive strategies. I must note that normally I don’t...

Friends, The battle for the “Cloud” is heating up. With Microsoft’s desire to become SaaS leader, Google should prepare for a long and bloody battle. With recent introduction of Microsoft Online Services, Microsoft has set the stage. Many journalists and IT professionals were waiting for this moment for some...