Cloudy Forecast For Microsoft Office 365? - Small Business Computing

Cloudy Forecast For Microsoft Office 365?

Jan 6, 2011
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PCWorld: Cloudy Forecast For Microsoft Office 365?

At the end of last month, Microsoft’s Hotmail Web e-mail service lost data of over 17,000 users for three days, possibly longer. Is this an augur of how reliably Microsoft will operate its much more ambitious Office 365 software-as-a-service offering, Leonhard wonders?


“If this is the way Microsoft’s going to handle Office 365 outages, we’re all in for some interesting times.

On Dec. 30, one of the largest SQL Server databases on the planet started having problems. The database in question just happens to belong to Microsoft. And the way the company reacted to the problems should raise red flags for anyone considering a move to the Microsoft cloud.”

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