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Last updated: June 22, 2009

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“All the lessons that Microsoft has learned since 2005 have been poured into the new Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), a part of Microsoft Online Services. … There is nothing else quite like BPOS on the market today, and, particularly in a down economy, it has the potential to save businesses of any size a lot of money and improve how they operate in the process.” — William Van Winkle, Tom’s Hardware (June 1, 2009)

“Microsoft's Software + Service strategy has rapidly matured and is native to Exchange 2010.” — Ted Schadler in The Forrester Blog for Information & Knowledge Management Professionals (April 15, 2009)

“…it looks as though Microsoft is well on its way to balancing these requirements [needs of the cloud based world and core capabilities needed by enterprises].” — Jim Rapoza in eWEEK (April 14, 2009)

“Microsoft’s ‘Software+Services’ strategy is showing signs of life with the unveiling of Exchange and SharePoint hosted services. Its Dynamics applications are picking up steam among ISVs. And Microsoft is rapidly becoming a force in security voice communications and virtualization.” — Lawrence Walsh in eWeek Channel Insider (March 30, 2009)

“The Live@edu service offers our students the advantage of a greatly increased mailbox capacity and attachment file size, a useful calendar, plus a number of improvements in related services, while retaining their identity as QUT students in their e-mail addresses. The University will benefit by having automated service upgrades, and better scalability and availability by deploying this software as a service offering from Microsoft.” — Tom Cochrane, professor and deputy vice chancellor for the division of technology, information and learning support at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), in Network World (March 16, 2009)

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Fast Facts on Services from Microsoft Business Division

  • To date, more than 4,000 partners around the world have joined the Microsoft Partner Program for Microsoft Online Services, making it the most successful partner ecosystem for online business-class services.
  • Thousands of educational institutions in 86 countries have enrolled in Live@edu.
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0/Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online has more than 18,000 customers and more than 900,000 users.
  • Microsoft Office Live (Office Live Workspace and Office Live Small Business) now has over 4 million sign-ups for people to share, store and work together.
  • Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services (EHS) processes between 2 and 4 billion messages per day.