If you like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client software but hate the expense of licensing and running Exchange Server, there is another alternative: a subscription service that effectively lets people dump Exchange in favour of Google's cloud-computing infrastructure.
Microsoft yesterday officially launched the online versions of its Exchange and SharePoint software platforms, but only to businesses in the United States for now.
Australian IT services firm SMS Management and Technology last week claimed to be fielding decent levels of interest from large Australian organisations interested in dumping their existing email platforms and migrating to Google's Gmail service.
The NSW Department of Education and Training will start migrating its 1.5 million school students off the current Microsoft Exchange email system and on to Google's Gmail from next week, the department's chief information officer Stephen Wilson said today.
New Zealand's largest university, the University of Auckland, today revealed it would roll out Google's online email and office suite to its 50,000 students, staff and alumni.
One of Outlook's most useful features is the capability of providing you with free/busy information for everyone in your organisation. It appears to the user to be something that "just works.", however it's more complicated than that. Thankfully, Microsoft has improved free/busy handling in Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2007 with the new Availability Service.
The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.
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Although Office and Windows continue to produce vast revenue and profits for Microsoft, some of the company's other well-known consumer titles are generating only a trickle of business.
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Most of us have to use Microsoft Outlook for our day-to-day organisation and communication, so it's a good idea to learn some of its secrets. Here's a guide to get you started.
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