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____/ SomeBloke on Friday 24 Jun 2011 17:38 : \____
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:28:33 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Sinister Midget on Friday 24 Jun 2011 13:52 : \____
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>>> On 2011-06-24, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
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>>>> 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.
>>
>
> Here's a link to a website you may know.
>
> A very interesting read none the less.
>
> http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
Yes, he used to post here. Top man.
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