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...

On January 14th, Google posted Service Level Agreement (SLA) related data as it applies to Google Apps for both business and individual customers. In 2010, Gmail was available 99.984% of the time, which translates into approximately 7 minutes of downtime per month, and basically represents accumulation of small delays...

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,...

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...

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 Online Services – March BPOS Update On Friday March 26, 2010, Microsoft announced to its partners and resellers that Microsoft Online Services were significantly enhanced to provide BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) and Exchange Online Standard users with much larger mailboxes, increased number of SharePoint site collections, simplified...

As SaaS space heats-up, both Microsoft and Google are not wasting their time and put a ton of effort on developing additional features for their respective hosted offerings – Microsoft BPOS and Google Apps. In a blog post by Barb Mosher of CMS Wire, she speaks about increasing competition...

Over the past several weeks we have received overwhelming response and a large number of requests concerning Google Apps Premium vs. Microsoft BPOS blog post. We would like to thank all our valued customers, readers and friends for their ongoing patronage. We are working closely with our business partners...

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...