Review: Office 365 turns up the heat

	Office 365 for businesses gets upgraded, new bundles added | Why Microsoft's pushing Office subscriptions
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	Review: Office 365 turns up the heat Latest blend of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync servers in the cloud combines an excellent feature set with easier setup and management Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Lab, Inc. Delivering Endpoint Integration and Control Read this report to learn more about the offerings of platform-based secure content and threat management and why businesses should put an increased focus around an endpoint security platform implementation. Learn more. In this Issue Office 365 for businesses gets upgraded, new bundles added Why Microsoft's pushing Office subscriptions Preston Gralla: King of hype? Nokia CEO says Windows Phone "can be the biggest operating system in the world" Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance Second wave of Windows 8 client promotions coming soon Preston Gralla: Windows Phone's presence in the enterprise: Dead in the water, says a new report Firefox OS adds to pressure on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS MWC2013: Nokia hopes to boost sales with inexpensive Windows phone Microsoft ships IE10 for Windows 7 To Surface or not to Surface Preston Gralla: Microsoft, Apple, and Google agree: The federal ban against gay marriage must go WEBCAST: VMware Virtualizing Exchange Microsoft Exchange is the most widely used e-mail system in the world. Yet it is still subject to many of the limitations inherent in most applications running directly on physical hardware. View Now! Office 365 for businesses gets upgraded, new bundles added Microsoft will upgrade on Wednesday its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already termed somewhat confusing. Read More Why Microsoft's pushing Office subscriptions The launch of new and revised Office 365 software-by-subscription plans for businesses shows that Microsoft realizes its current licensing revenue is threatened by cost-cutting customers, an analyst said yesterday. Read More Preston Gralla: King of hype? Nokia CEO says Windows Phone "can be the biggest operating system in the world" Windows Phone is bumping along with a market share in the low single digits, but Nokia CEO Stephen Elop claims that Windows Phone "can be the biggest operating system in the world." If that's not the definition of chutzpah, I don't know what is. Read More Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards. Read More Second wave of Windows 8 client promotions coming soon Microsoft is about to embark on a second wave of Windows 8 client hardware promotions and user education, an executive said Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Strengthen Your Business with Cloud Computing This white paper provides a brief overview of cloud computing, explains how midsize companies can benefit, and describes the steps they can take to take advantage of what it has to offer. Learn More Preston Gralla: Windows Phone's presence in the enterprise: Dead in the water, says a new report As bad as Windows Phone's market share is among consumers, it's even worse in what you would expect to be Microsoft's strength -- the enterprise. A new report finds that in the fourth quarter of 2012, only 0.5% of all mobile devices activated in enterprises were Windows Phones. And because of the study's methodology, that might even be an overstatement of its share. Read More Firefox OS adds to pressure on Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS The emergence of the Firefox OS is just one more reason that Microsoft and BlackBerry will need to sharpen their marketing savvy to sell more smartphones in 2013. Read More MWC2013: Nokia hopes to boost sales with inexpensive Windows phone Nokia debuted the Lumia 520 and 720 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The 520 is the company's cheapest Windows phone to date. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb Read More Microsoft ships IE10 for Windows 7 Microsoft today released a final version of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7, nearly two years after it introduced the browser at a company conference. Read More To Surface or not to Surface Microsoft needs to make up its mind whether it wants to stay a software company or if it's really serious about being a hardware power as well. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft, Apple, and Google agree: The federal ban against gay marriage must go Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other tech giants rarely agree on anything. But they all agree on this: The Supreme Court should rule that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which for federal purposes defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman, is unconstitutional. Read More
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