Microsoft Business Division Virtual Presskit

Students and administrators at Washington State University discuss how Microsoft Live@edu will enrich the learning experience. (June 22, 2009)

Students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania share tips for using Microsoft Live@edu. (June 22, 2009)

Students at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania share their experiences using Microsoft Live@edu to stay organized and productive both at school and in their personal lives. (June 22, 2009)

Raheel Retiwalla, Chief Technology Officer of Clearway Technology Partners, talks about helping relieve the IT burden for customers through their systems integration services built on top of Microsoft Online Services. (May 20, 2009)

Chris Capossela, senior vice president of the Information Worker Product Management Group, speaks to an audience at Stanford University on how software plus services marks the third chapter for Microsoft. (April 8, 2009)

Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, speaks with Kara Swisher about the changing business model of software and more (All Things Digital. - April 3, 2009)

Recent Announcements

• The Choice is Clear: Universities Worldwide Select Microsoft Live@edu (June 22, 2009)
• Microsoft Online Services Available for Purchase Worldwide (April 27, 2009)
  • EDS, an HP Company, and Microsoft to Jointly Sell and Deliver Enterprise-class Cloud Communications and Collaboration Services
  • Click here to see partner case studies
• Microsoft Online Services Available Worldwide (March 2, 2009)
  • Visit the Microsoft Online Services team blog to read a guest post by Ingo Elfering, Vice President of Information Technology Strategy, GlaxoSmithKline

Industry Buzz

“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)