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Cross Platform Working means the Cloud for Me

My home office is split between Mac and PC  . The first computer I ever really learned to use was a Macintosh  so getting back to using it was quite nostalgic for me. But I digress. Once you throw in my iPhone and iPad, I grew to have more requirements for email, calendar, and other productivity apps that I would have if I owned just one Windows PC and a “dumb” phone.

I’ve always been better organized electronically than I ever was in my yellow legal pad/day runner days so I’ve taken painstaking care to keep a workflow that keeps me on schedule for meetings, deadlines, and tasks. In fact, my moves to finesse my toolset offer even more chances to get reminders on things.

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Microsoft Office 365 Beta: My Initial Impressions

I’ve been following the run up to the Beta roll out of Microsoft Office365 and can say that Microsoft has indeed spoken in the web office arena. Their first salvo of the Office 365 Beta stays true to form to the Microsoft playbook of studying a market and its players before making its delayed entrance into a new market.

Office 365 Beta delivers Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync Online plus an external facing web site all within the cloud ideal for Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) or even freelancers/independent consultants who have outgrown the backend infrastructure their local ISP provides.

Unlike its competitor, Google Apps for Business, Microsoft Office 365 does require some software to be installed locally, which should be no big thing for smaller organizations. Setting up the local clients was simple and users who maintain their own home PCs and email clients should have no problems.

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