Microsoft Office 365 Signals Huge Cloud Shift

ZDNet - Doug Henschen - 19 Apr, 2011
More than 100000 organizations are signed up to test the vendor's new on-demand platform, suggesting email and collaboration could overtake CRM as the top services-based app. By Doug Henschen InformationWeek Microsoft's Office 365 productivity platform ...

Microsoft taps StarHub to deliver Office 365

ZDNet Asia - 19 Apr, 2011
SINGAPORE--Microsoft will bring its cloud-based Office 365 productivity suite to Singapore-based users through a partnership with local telco StarHub, executives from both companies revealed Tuesday. According to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, ...

Microsoft Office 365 Beta

PC Magazine - 19 Apr, 2011
Provides cloud-based Exchange and Sharepoint Server. Gives end-users Office Web Apps with optional Office 2010 desktop integration. Also delivers Lync for Unified Communications and a rich Outlook Web App client. Excellent Exchange administration ...

Office 365 Isn't Mobile Enough

PCWorld - Tony Bradley - 19 Apr, 2011
One of the most compelling aspects of Office 365--aside from its overall value--is that you can access it from virtually anywhere. Because it is delivered from the cloud, the tools and services in Office 365 are not tied to a ...

Microsoft launches Office 365 Marketplace selling Web apps for businesses

Los Angeles Times - 19 Apr, 2011
Microsoft on Monday launched an app store for its Office 365 cloud-based software and pushed the suite into a public beta-testing release available in 38 countries and 17 languages, as the tech giant works to fend off challenges from Google. ...

Microsoft Office 365 beta release date: Now

Computerworld (blog) - Richi Jennings - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention Mere words quaver and fail at the excellence of this video... Mike Heck looks at it: [is he related to Phil? ...

Microsoft Tries To Bury Google Apps With Office 365 (MSFT, GOOG)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
This morning, Microsoft launched the public beta for Office 365, the company's latest answer to Google Apps. Office, email, and other business software make up Microsoft's second biggest and most important business, after Windows. In the last year, ...

Microsoft releases public beta of Office 365

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
Microsoft on Sunday night released Office 365 to public beta, with a focus on small businesses. Office 365 is a rebranding of the Business Productivity Online Suite, a package of the cloud-based versions of tools such as Exchange, SharePoint and Office ...

Microsoft's Tight Control Over Office 365 Marketplace Apps

PC Magazine - Samara Lynn - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
In addition to announcing the public beta of Office 365, Microsoft has also introduced the Office 365 Marketplace. Currently live, it has over 100 apps and 400 professional services offered by the Microsoft cloud partner community. ...

Microsoft takes Office 365 beta public

ZDNet UK (blog) - Ben Woods - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
Blogging on the inner workings of business tech including, but not limited to, business intelligence (BI), analytics, enterprise software, desktop and portable hardware, IT in education, open-source p… ...

Microsoft opens up Office 365 as public beta

CNET - Lance Whitney - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
Microsoft has opened the tap on its cloud-based Office 365 and is now offering the service as a public beta for anyone to try out. Available in 38 countries and in 17 languages, the new beta follows several months of limited testing ...

Office 365 Virtually Pays for Itself

PCWorld - Tony Bradley - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
Microsoft has launched the public beta of the highly-anticipated Office 365. There is a lot to like about the cloud-based suite, but one of the most compelling features of the service might just be the price. ...

Microsoft opens Office 365 beta floodgates to the world

Register - Joe Fay - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
Microsoft Office 365 hit public beta yesterday as Redmond uncorked a marketplace to support the long-gestating cloud-based Office suite. The public beta pushes the suite out to 38 markets, in 17 languages. ...

Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business: Cloud Showdown

PCWorld - Elsa Wenzel - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
Office 365, Microsoft's answer to Google Apps for Business, just became available to the public for beta testing. With this move, Redmond comes closer to delivering a package of tools to companies seeking e-mail, word processing ...

First look at Microsoft Office 365

Computerworld - Mike Heck - ‎Apr 18, 2011‎
Network World - Microsoft might not be the first name you think of when considering enterprise cloud offerings. But then again, the company does handle 10 billion Hotmail and Windows Live messages a day and has a 15-year history of ...

Microsoft Opens Office 365 Beta to All

PC Magazine - Mark Hachman, Samara Lynn - ‎Apr 17, 2011‎
On Monday, Microsoft opened its Office 365 beta to the public, in advance of a more formal launch later this year. Users can secure a spot in the public beta at Office365.com, which covers 38 countries and regions in 17 languages, ...

Microsoft Office 365 Beta Opens for Business: What's Inside

PCWorld - Elsa Wenzel - ‎Apr 17, 2011‎
Now anyone can try Office 365, Microsoft's cloud productivity package for businesses. The service opened Sunday night for beta testing, coming a step closer to its final launch, which will occur sometime later this year. ...

Microsoft announces Office 365 public beta, Marketplace

Macworld - David Chartier - 19 Apr, 2011
Last October, Microsoft launched a private beta of Office 365, an evolution of its Web-based version of key business products like Office, SharePoint, and Lync Server. The offering is designed to take on competitors like Google Docs, Salesforce, ...

Microsoft's Office 365 Beta Yet Another Cloud Step

Microsoft Watch - 19 Apr, 2011
Microsoft has launched its Office 365 public beta, repeating the company's well-worn pattern of soliciting widespread feedback ahead of a general release. Public betas also help spread the word about a new product months before it hits browsers or ...

Microsoft Office 365 Launches in Beta

American Banking News - 19 Apr, 2011
Microsoft has launched the public beta of Microsoft Office 365 in India for professionals and small businesses. This comes even as Microsoft Corporation announced it is investing 90% of its research and development budget in cloud computing this year. ...

Office 365 From Microsoft Heads to Public Beta

WebProNews - 19 Apr, 2011
Last year, Microsoft introduced Office 365 in limited beta. Now the company has announced the public beta, expanding it into nearly twice as many countries and languages (38 markets and 17 lanugages). Office 365 brings together Microsoft Office, ...

Microsoft launches public beta version of Office 365

domain-B - 19 Apr, 2011
Microsoft has launched the public beta of Office 365 the major component of its "all in" strategy for cloud computing. Microsoft's main rival in cloud computing is Google. Analysts says the introduction is in keeping with Microsoft's tradition of ...

Cloud Computing: Office 365 Goes to Public Beta

SYS-CON Media (press release) - Maureen O'Gara - 19 Apr, 2011
Microsoft has sent Office 365, the cloud version of its multibillion-dollar Office franchise, out to public beta for anyone to try. Ultimately enterprise deals will range from $2 - for e-mail only - to $27a user a month with a 99.9 SLA - which is more ...

Microsoft Office 365 beta, Pricing: Android, iPhone & Windows Phone

Phones Review - 19 Apr, 2011
Microsoft Office 365 beta is now live and access can be made via the likes of Android, iPhone and Windows Mobile so it made sense for us to let you know a little bit about this new service. First of all we will get the pricing details out of the way, ...

Microsoft releases Office 365 for public beta

Siliconrepublic.com - 19 Apr, 2011
Microsoft's next-generation cloud productivity service, Office 365, has been released for public Beta, including web versions of Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Exchange and its unified comms technology Lync. The technology giant has revealed that so far ...

Microsoft opens cloud-based Office 365 beta

Computer Business Review - 19 Apr, 2011
Microsoft has opened its Office 365 cloud suite to a public beta of the service, which the company claims has been trialled by over 100000 companies in the last six months. The public beta will be released in 38 markets and available in 17 languages. ...

Microsoft Office 365 now in public beta

FierceCIO - Paul Mah - 19 Apr, 2011
Office 365 has entered public beta, and reviews of the service once known as the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) have started to arrive. To the uninitiated, Office 365 is a comprehensive service that's made up of four of Microsoft's business ...

Microsoft opens beta for cloud-based Office 365

PC Pro - Stewart Mitchell - 19 Apr, 2011
The service has been trialled by more than 100000 companies over the last six months, Microsoft said, but has now been made available to 38 countries ahead of an official launch scheduled for later this year. ...

Office 365 beta

Geekzone - Paul Spain - 19 Apr, 2011
After a few months of limited access, Microsoft have opened up the Office 365 beta on a global basis. Office 365 is the successor to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), Office Live Small Business, and Live@edu. ...

Microsoft launches Office 365 Marketplace

TopNews New Zealand - 19 Apr, 2011
Redmond-based software colossal Microsoft recently launched its new app store for its Office 365 Cloud-based software released the suite for public beta testing. The public-beta testing release is available in seventeen language and thirty-eight ...

 

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