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Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 5/6/2011

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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:

Orion Energy Systems Sees the Light, Moves Data to Windows Azure

This move will enable building managers to view energy-consumption data from multiple facilities on the Windows Azure platform, while providing Orion with approximately a $57,000 savings each year in hardware, labor and maintenance costs.

 

AudioMicro Partners With Microsoft: Free Music, Sound Effects For Office 2010 Users 

AudioMicro, a site where you can find royalty-free stock music and sound effects backed by DFJ Frontier and Fotolia, has struck a deal with Microsoft to provide music and sound effect files to Microsoft Office 2010 users worldwide.

 

Bank of America Cashes In On Windows Phone 7 With New App

Via the company’s new app, Bank of America customers can check their balances, transfer cash, pay bills, and find the nearest Bank of America locations. (According to MobileTechWorld, that latter functionality works pretty well with WP7’s integrated Bing Maps feature.

 

What You Need to Know About Office 365 for Small Businesses

At the time, Office 365 was available only in a limited, private beta. But now it's in public beta, so anyone can get in. I strongly recommend checking it out: This solution will appeal to individuals and small businesses in addition to the medium-sized businesses and enterprises that might seem like more likely targets for this service.

 

Bing to Become Search Default on New BlackBerry Phones

Microsoft has struck some similar deals in the past, with Bing becoming the default search engine on some (but not all) Verizon Android phones. There were rumors that Microsoft was negotiating with Apple to make Bing the default on iPhones, but that never came to be.

 

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