(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) Been a long, tiring but very enjoyable month. I have been on the road as part of Microsoft road shows and visiting clients in each of the Australian state capitals. There is a growing shift from people saying “Why should I be interested in the Cloud?” to “How can…
If you run a business in the IT channel, no doubt you’re facing dramatic changes on all sides: new technologies and delivery models that transform your relationship with customers; economic uncertainty that threatens to choke off vital revenue streams; and emerging competitors from inside the traditional IT market and beyond. Here's a couple of quotes…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) So the announcement is out and BPOS (as well as Live@Edu) will become Office 365. This branding is officially only applicable to the next wave of Microsoft’s direct to market hosted productivity tools, due in 2011 (official line is H1, interweb gossip suggests nearer the end of Q1). However…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) Following the recent embarrassing down time for BPOS services Microsoft are now offering a Health Status Dashboard. Morgan Cole the man who “leads the team at Microsoft whose mission is to make sure that BPOS customers have a great experience” explains about the dashboard and thinking behind it here.…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy) Rumours abound on the interwebs about a branding and naming changing for BPOS as part of the refresh to the 2010 (Wave 14) versions of Exchange, Sharepoint and Lync (previosuly OCS and Live Meeting). If the rumours are true then we will be referring to BPOS as Union going…
