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Weekly #WhyMsft Round-Up 4/22/2011

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Welcome to the Why Microsoft Weekly Roundup! The roundup is a collection of news items from around the web this week. Our goal is to share a variety of conversations about Microsoft products in the community…Enjoy!

Top 5 Picks for This Week:

What’s Keeping Google Up at Night?

The obvious thing that they are worried about is Microsoft. If you flip back a couple of years, not only was Google not worried about Live Search, they were actually more focused on how to eat Microsoft's lunch with Google Docs, the Chrome browser, and the Android and Chrome operating systems. But Bing has forced Google to look more closely at its biggest cash cow.

 

Microsoft’s Office 365 Will Shake up IT

Office 365, frankly, is to Google Apps as XBOX 360 Live is to Pong. It’s in a different league entirely and represents a leap into the next generation of computing.

 

Microsoft Gets the FISMA Certification for BPOS Federal Cloud Suite

Many federal agencies stipulate FISMA certification as a requirement for their IT solutions. Just over a week ago, Microsoft and Google were locked in a war of words as to whose cloud solution, BPOS or Google Apps, was quicker to grab the FISMA certification crown.

 

Why the Office 365 Beta is Worth Testing

Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released cloud services are incredibly promising. If your business runs on Microsoft Office, you owe it to yourself to do some serious testing in your own environment. That goes double if you currently have a Microsoft Exchange server on your premises.

 

Google’s Use of Beta Has to Stop

To get enterprises to switch from Microsoft Office to Google’s cloud computing and electronic mail products, enterprises cannot tolerate the risk associated with beta test versions.

 

Links from some of our #WhyMsft Favorites:

 

Leon Tribe: The Relative Movement of CRM Solutions

Kip Kniskern: Can Windows Phone Turn a Post-NoDo Corner?

 

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