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____/ Sinister Midget on Friday 24 Jun 2011 13:52 : \____
> On 2011-06-24, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>
>> 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!
>
> Everybody at MICROS~1 is a salesman, not a technical person. They want
> to talk about feeeeeeeeeeeeechures of the new or up and coming, not
> what's wrong with what you're already trying to use.
>
> They got rid of all of their technical people. No money to be made.
Many Azure execs jumped the ship. Now it's time for it to sink along with other
products belonging to this division which loses billions.
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