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Microsoft announces hosted Exchange plans

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 8, 2008 by Phil Nickinson
Filed Under: News; Tags: push e-mail, microsoft

If 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.

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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.

 
 

Comments

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.
Submitted by aathomas (not verified) on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 15:32.
Is anyone using this service for personal use? I would like two accounts and the price seems right. I called MS and they were surprised when I told them this wasn't for business. They were to call me back but never did.
Submitted by Kash76 (not verified) on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 13:06.
Am I the only one concerned at the security of services like this? Given the, ahem, cavalier attitude that many western governments seem to have to personal privacy in the last 7 years 1 day, the last place I would put all my client contact & calendar data is with an external hosting company without a cast-iron encryption guarantee.

Then again, I can't understand why people reveal all on Facebook and the like...
Submitted by tirk (not verified) on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 13:39.
I have nothing to hide. That's why I donlt care.
Submitted by Kash76 (not verified) on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 13:43.
曾几何时，好莱坞兴起一股健身狂潮，北京展览公司加入健身队伍，并引以为荣。然而，凡事都讲究适可而止，过度运动一样会带来负面作用。这不，皮肤北京展览公司
Submitted by tiandirenhe (not verified) on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 03:57.

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