It’s been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe to Office 365 Home Premium (the Office 365 “family pack” with five licenses) and 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies are using it in some…
Windows Azure Scheduler allows you to invoke actions—such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or posting a message to a storage queue—on any schedule. With Scheduler, you create jobs in the cloud that reliably call services both inside and outside of Windows Azure and run those jobs…
Microsoft just announced the release of a number of new templates for its Dynamics CRM that tailors the customer relationship management software to fit a number of lucrative verticals. It also announced details of a new pricing deal that will bundle it with Office 365….
Microsoft has signed a deal with the Sao Paolo State Department of Education which will see more than 4 million Brazilian students benefiting from a free copy of Office 365. Based on the price of individual subscriptions, this represents an investment of around $900 million…
When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise cloud computing. Seven years later, complacency has diluted that innovative spirit, and…