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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 24 Jun 2011 11:26 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> A Microsoft Horror Story: Newspaper Chain Is Switching 8,500 Employees To
>> Google Apps
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>>| One isolated case doesn't make a trend,
>>| but Microsoft should be worried about cases
>>| like the McClatchy newspaper chain.
>>|
>>| A loyal Microsoft shop today, McClatchy is
>>| shifting its 8,500 employees over to Google Apps.
>> `----
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>> http://www.businessinsider.com/a-microsoft-horror-story-newspaper-chain-is-switching-8500-employees-to-google-2011-6
>>
>> No wonder the cash cows are declining for Microsoft.
>
> You left out the supposed reason for them switching:
>
> Worse yet, McClatchy cites bad customer reviews of Microsoft's existing
> cloud offering -- the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) -- as a
> major reason why it's going to Google.
>
> Apparently the quality of Microsoft software isn't as even as trolls like
> Slimer would have us believe. What a shock.
>
> So why not go with Microsoft's cloud solution? Geiger says they were
> considering Office 365, but they talked to other IT departments in
> newspapers and local businesses. "To a person, everybody was very
> dissatisfied with BPOS [Microsoft's current cloud offering]. They were
> very unhappy with the level of service. There were frequent outages,
> unexplained outages, and some indifference from Microsoft." The Microsoft
> reps who talked to them about Office 365 "wanted to talk about the
> functions and the concept what they were doing, but were not as concerned
> with the day to day uptime or liability."
>
> Microsoft, concentrating mainly on the feature matrix and indifferent to
> robustness? Say it ain't so!
BPOS has "POS" in it. Heh.
It figures.
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