Microsoft chops prices of its hosted enterprise cloud offerings

Microsoft is the price of its exchange, and hosted a Microsoft - it's business services (i.e., improve work efficiency, or BPOS online suites, and according to the existing). host

Microsoft is cut its communication from each user monthly online prices to $5 per month 10 yuan, and users. It will be the price of BPOS bundle - including exchange network, network, traffic network and life meeting -- from $15 per user monthly $1bn, but each user per month.

Microsoft is leaving for the workers Deskless pricing offering online edition is the same. Exchange network Deskless workers and perform online Deskless workers still $2 / users per month. The two Deskless bundle of workers to stay in the user offering 300% per month.

Not surprisingly, Microsoft wasn't reduce the price to competition from Google program or other host. Instead, they think, "quick cuts, customers worldwide, improved efficiency can reach new software, such as communication server 2010" (according to the press conference.

BPOs Microsoft in 15 new country before the end of the year. Later in the week, BPOS commercial in Singapore, test plan in Brazil, Chile, Columbia, the Czech republic, Hungary, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Puerto Rico and Taiwan. In India's business is also expected later this year, officials said.

Microsoft now has more than 1 million claims of Microsoft's online service for users (not including family life, there are many customers, according to company officials). New signing BPOS customers include Hofstra university, lion door, McDonald's, France entertainment group, Sweden's cross and tyco fluid control.

Microsoft will add a pay, Microsoft Office hosted - the web browser - Webified version of the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - its online stable next year. Company officials say pay offering is also applicable to the customer, the volume of Microsoft createtable - so that they can hold office, little slower - web browser, not except let Microsoft held or. There will be additional (and, so far, has unannounce) function, will pay part of a web browser, office is not free, AD - funded version.

Microsoft now has launched its online family to refresh the service, every 90 days, according to the company's vice President, RON Markezich Microsoft's online. Some new characteristics of the company on - little slower software - such as switching is held in 2010, business online content, to provide the products based on server. (final exchange program by 2010 software bits are from next week to customers.

I'm sure that Microsoft customers will be very optimistic price for Microsoft held offerings. But I want to partner from sales to Microsoft Redmond hosting service (if not held in version), may let Microsoft is not so warm...