Microsoft yesterday officially launched the online versions of its Exchange and SharePoint software platforms, but only to businesses in the United States for now.
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.
Yahoo's Zimbra software can now work hand-in-hand with other server software for email, calendar, and contacts, including Microsoft's widely used Exchange platform.
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.
Australia's biggest known migration to Microsoft's new Exchange 2007 collaboration platform will kick off early next year, as brewer Lion Nathan moves around 3,000 users to the new system.
In my last blog post, I described some latency issues that appeared on my MacBook once our IT department installed Entourage and Exchange. This led to Microsoft getting in touch to try and help me out but in the end the problems were solved by ditching Entourage in favour of Apple's Mail.
If you're considering an upgrade to Entourage 2008, think again -- for some reason, Microsoft hasn't bothered to add some vital functions that are critical to making Apple Mac systems welcome on any Exchange network.
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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.
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Microsoft is investigating a bug that appears to affect an Exchange component called Outlook Web Access, which allows people to access their in-boxes and folders via a Web browser.
Australian-based company Thinc Technology has launched a suite of office applications aimed at challenging Microsoft Outlook's dominance of the small- to medium-sized business market.
Microsoft hatches plans for a new Exchange Server e-mail system, with improved security and a facelift for Outlook, in the software's first major upgrade in nearly two years.
A new upgrade allows users of Office for the Mac to access e-mail, calendar entries and addresses stored on a corporate Exchange server.
Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft have recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.
A new version of Microsoft's Exchange communications software has entered a second round of testing, the company said Monday.
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