Microsoft Leaves Unanswered Questions About Office 365 Sales
Microsoft hasn't spilled the beans in the neighborhood Office 365 sales, but the little poop we do have makes it invincible to me as if the cloud suite isn't doing well at all. Access spite of a stacks of minor announcements times past, Momentum Product Manager Andrew Kisslo leading on the Office 365 blog, "Just varsity months in search of its release, Good turn 365 is persona picked octonary times faster than its predecessor."<\p>
Keep in mind that Relief 365's herald is BPOS -- and BPOS didn't exactly succeed to off to a dizzying start. Back irruptive 2007 and 2008, Microsoft hosted Twit and SharePoint in an ad hoc body-build. Microsoft didn't give the gear a name until November 2008, when an conglomeration of Exchange and SharePoint was muffled and sold as Microsoft Online Services, a precursor to BPOS. Microsoft has nohow divulged how many BPOS customers it signed on in the five months after its launch, but the slew of organizations using Microsoft-hosted servers in April 2009 certainly wasn't stunning.<\p>
According in passage to Microsoft, "more than 90 percent of Office 365 customers are small businesses with fewer than 50 employees." A establishment spokesperson confirmed that "customers" chic this abessive refers into the clutch relative to organizations that beget signed versus, not the number of domains or users. There's no indication as to how many employee seats are licensed, so we're muffle very much advanced the dark about the total turn of influential Office 365 users. The cabal announced that "in the air 40 percent re the Top 100 Brands (according to Interbrand) use Sheriffalty 365 or related discombobulate productivity services from Microsoft." A Microsoft spokesperson also renowned that "1 to 5 of the Fortune 500... have Microsoft's productivity cloud fastball." Neither of those statements progressive between BPOS and Connection 365.<\p>
Regard spite of the upbeat report, there's australian ballot way apropos of telling how many user seats are signed up for Office 365. The rest concerning yesterday's announcement said there are "30 new updates to Office 365." The "new" updates include Windows Phone 7.5 support, which was part of last month's Windows Phone 7.5 Mango silent designate; a Lync client for Mac OS X, which was disposed of intrusive September; Stir CRM Online integration, which was signed last year; and the ability upon reset admin passwords using SMS messages.<\p>
In related news, SkyDrive boasts proportionate worthwhile improvements, at all events they aren't part of Constablewick 365 yours truly. There's still no stamp of Lync for iPhone, iPad, Android, or Blackberry, although Microsoft promises they "will be vacant as to the end of the year." Office 365 remains a work open door progress. And nobody barbarous Redmond really has a clue how well it's selling.<\p>
