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Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 8/5/2011

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Each week, we round up industry news and articles that you might have missed. Enjoy this week's selections.

Office 365

Computer Networks Questions "Is Google Ready for Your Business?" "With Office 365 you can deliver the right set of tools for the right users - all with the appropriate levels of security and compliance technologies. It also offers a 99.9 per cent uptime guarantee. This coupled with our 24/7 IT support service means that whenever your business needs help we'll be there. Google Apps does not even come close when it comes to delivering this kind of support and the level of support that most businesses demand."

Making the Big Move to Microsoft's Office 365 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer summed it up when he outlined the company's vision for Office 365: "With a few clicks, Office 365 levels the playing field, giving small and midsize businesses powerful collaboration tools that have given big businesses an edge for years."

PC Helps Announces On-Demand Support and Training for Microsoft Office 365
PC Helps is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, which ranks them among the most highly qualified support providers in the industry and assures that their productivity consultants have ongoing access to complete training and technical information on all Microsoft products, technologies and support tools.

The Microsoft Advantage

The 2011 Microsoft Product Roadmap When we published our roadmap of Microsoft products last year at this time, we knew 2011 would have a tough act to follow. After all, in 2010 Microsoft released new versions of Office, SharePoint and SQL Server, among others products. But as we looked at the pipeline for this year, it turned out there were quite a few new products coming to the channel from Redmond.

Windows Phone Mango
Mango is a substantial upgrade, offering a wealth of features both for users—including Twitter and LinkedIn integration, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger chat, a hugely improved Web browser, turn-by-turn navigation, and rich Bing integration—and developers—a far more complete, capable API, limited multitasking, greater integration with built-in phone features—alike.

Forrester: IE 9 Can Bring Companies $3 Million Over 3 Years
Upgrading from Internet Explorer 8 to IE 9 can represent a significant cost benefit to organizations -- more than $3 million over three years, in fact. That was the conclusion of a Microsoft-commissioned study published in June by Forrester Research.

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