Microsoft's experience in Cloud Computing
Microsoft has been providing cloud computing services for more than 15 years by operating our own consumer Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings including Hotmail (with over 450 million users), Live Mesh, and BING (search) with over 28 billion queries per month. With enterprise online services such as the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which includes Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online, Microsoft Cloud services have been expanded to commercial and government enterprise customers. Additionaly in the Education Sector Microsoft offers free solution Messaging and collaboration for Universities with Live@Edu.
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Dear Christophe Thanks for your comments. I am not deleting it, this your opinion and this okay to me, From my side i have done multiple successful Hosted Exchange Project in the past - even to a size up to 3.5 Mio users. and all what this post is saying is that Microsoft has shown over the past 15 years with differrent Services successful -hosted services (even before someone was talking about cloud.) Hotmail is up and running since 15 years and serving 480 Mio users, WIndows Update Services is up and running and serving and serving millions of PCAnonymous
December 27, 2010
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