For Microsoft, Forrester’s recent report on productivity suites and alternatives to Office 2013 just couldn’t get better. It shows that while there are alternatives to Microsoft Office, most enterprises aren’t even looking at them. It also shows that if Office 2013 still hasn’t gained the…
Microsoft partners with MetLife to deploy Office 365 to more than 64,000 MetLife employees. Microsoft (MSFT) has scored another big customer win, partnering with insurance providerMetLife Inc. for the deployment of its cloud-based productivity suiteOffice 365 to more than 64,000 MetLife employees. MetLife said it plans to reinvest…
Army buys 50,000 seat licenses for cloud-based Microsoft Office and collaboration tools. 5 Army Tech Innovations To Watch The U.S. Army will purchase 50,000 seat licenses of Microsoft’s Office 365 suite of cloud-based Office and collaboration applications, Microsoft announced Monday. The blanket purchase agreement,…
Analytic decision support that can be delivered rapidly and flexibly is an invaluable asset. Microsoft’s promise of out-of-the-box business intelligence functionality was long since fulfilled in SQL Server 2005, but access to that functionality has largely been confined to people who were SQL Server-proficient. Only…
Microsoft has been making a big push with its Outlook.com email service since migrating all of its Hotmail users there, and it’s now also set to more deeply integrate the service into Windows 8.1. The company has detailed a number of updates to the operating system’s Mail app in…