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…
On April Fool’s Day, 2014, Gmail will celebrate its 10th birthday. By Internet standards, that’s several generations, and Gmail is essentially a senior citizen. To put its age into perspective: Gmail is older today than Hotmail was when Gmail made its debut a decade ago….
In keeping with its push to be the productivity suite of choice, Microsoft announced today two new search features for SharePoint Online, which will be rolled out globally over the next few days. The new Content Search Web Part (CSWP) enhances overall search functionality and result…
HDInsight is a service from Microsoft that brings an Apache Hadoop-based solution to the cloud. A modern, cloud-based data platform that manages data whether structured or unstructured, and of any size, HDInsight makes it possible for you to gain the full value of big data….