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Hot on the heels of the inaugural entry in my new series of articles about Office 365, Microsoft announced today that three major new customers have signed up for the enterprise version of the online productivity service. JetBlue, Patagonia, and the American Heart Association have all joined Office 365....More

As part of a wider move to cloud-centric solutions, I've switched my day-to-day writing to Evernote, which provides excellent web, PC, and mobile clients. But I'm still using Microsoft Word for my most critical work, such as my next book, Windows 8 Secrets....More

I've been waiting for this since it was announced at TechEd 2011, but Microsoft today finally released the Office 365 Integration Module (OIM) for Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Essentials. This lets you use the online services in Office 365 together with the on premise user management capabilities of SBSE in a seamless way....More

Microsoft this week released its free Lync 2010 mobile client for Windows Phone 7.x, providing access to the Lync server or service's presence, instant messaging, audio conferencing, and calling features while on the go. Lync 2010 for Windows Phone requires an on premise Lync Server in your company's computing infrastructure or Office 365, which provides cloud-based access to Lync Online....More

Microsoft this week announced a major milestone for its Live@edu program, which provides free, co-branded, cloud-hosted email, calendaring, document sharing, and communications functionality to educational institutions. Currently in the middle of a transition to Office 365, Live@edu now has are now over 22 million users, Microsoft says....More

When you think about "sharing" things online today, you probably think of social networking services like Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, which let you broadcast information to some group of users--friends, family members, the whole world, whatever--in ways that have become increasingly familiar. Wouldn't it be cool if SharePoint provided this type of functionality, but tied into the incredible content management backend it already supplies, and aimed at the needs of a knowledge worker looking to collaborate with his coworkers?...More

SharePoint's capabilities for managing and publishing publically-facing Internet web sites are less well-known than its intranet and extranet facilities. But even those who have explored this area in the past will find that SharePoint 2010 (and SharePoint Online, part of Office 365) has dramatically improved Internet web site capabilities, compared to previous versions....More

Like many of you, I have multiple email accounts. Like some of you, I have far too many email accounts. And in keeping with my desire to simplify wherever possible, I've been thinking a lot about the best way to consolidate these accounts into more manageable groups. And there are a couple of general approaches that may make sense....More

I attended the Office 365 launch today in New York. There were no surprises--I guess I was vaguely hoping for a last-minute surprise along the lines of a stripped down, free version of Office 365 that would answer the "what about the free version of Google Apps" question once and for all--but this is obviously a huge milestone, and one that will indeed put Google Apps in the rear view mirror for good. In fact, depending on how you measure things, that may have already happened....More