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add to deliciousIf you're still looking for a mobile push e-mail solution and none of our suggestions has worked out, Microsoft itself could be coming to the rescue.
The head of Redmond's business division this morning announced a slew of new hosted services, a direct shot across the bow of Google's free apps, including hosted Exchange access for as little as $3 per user per month.
Full hosted Exchange, Sharepoint access and other goodies will cost $15 a month per user, which is still within reason, and there are referral incentives for business partners as well.
However: It's not quite spelled out whether this is a business-only deal, or if the average consumer will be able to get in on the goodies.
Have been beta testing this service. Do not know yet if I will be able to keep it but I do like it, and $3 month per user is very nice. The other nice thing about this service is instead of the typical hosted exchange over https that you have to enter password every time you open outlook, they have an nice little signon tool that takes care of both configuring your profile and can be configured to start on windows login and minimize itself so you have just a little icon in the system tray. The frontbridge spam filter works very well. Have had maybe 5 false positives in the time I have been using it.