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Outlook.com Goes Dark This Time: Can Microsoft Run Cloud Services?

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Allen Falcon

  As reported by ZDnet on the Feb 25th, Microsoft’s new Outlook.com service suffered an outage lasting more than seven (7) hours.  Many customers could not log in, and those that could experiences significant performance issues. Even more disturbing, Microsoft did … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged microsoft, Office 365, Outage, Outlook.com | 1 Comment

 

Microsoft’s Apology Says Volumes about Office 365 Outages

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Allen Falcon

  It should be no secret that Microsoft’s Office 365 service continues to experience the types and frequency of outages that plagued its predecessor cloud service, BPOS.  While the outages receive little press coverage (they are frequent enough that they … Continue reading →

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Office 2013 – Much Ado About Nothing New

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Allen Falcon

  Microsoft recently announced and started providing demonstrations of Office 2013.  And as discussed in this Vanity Fair article, it is clear that Microsoft continues to suffer from lack of innovation.  The number of new features is limited, many of … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Box, Dropbox, Gmail, Google Docs, microsoft, MS Office, Office 2013, Office 365 | 2 Comments

 

File Sharing vs File Service: The Difference Matters

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Allen Falcon

  It is time to set the record straight — File Sharing and File Services are NOT the same thing. File Sharing is the ability to share a file with somebody else. A File Service is a structured service to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, file services, File Sharing, Google Apps, Office 365 | 1 Comment