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Microsoft Launches Office 365 in 10 New Markets, Eyes Expansion in Nearly 100 New Markets By Next Year (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft is bringing Office 365 to 10 new markets. The company today announced that people in Bhutan, Cambodia, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Laos, Maldives, Martinique, Mozambique, Myanmar, and Vatican City can now also subscribe to its productivity suite. The company says it plans to launch Office 365 in nearly 100 more markets by next year. VentureBeat adds: It's worth underlining that Microsoft is using the word "market" and not "country" on purpose. There are 196 countries in the world today, but the company plans to launch Office 365 in "a further 97 markets over the next year." That would bring the total to 247 markets -- the extra markets are differentiated by certain cultural and language differences that require more work on Microsoft's part, even if they are part of the same geographic country.Office is one of Microsoft's biggest cash cows. The company says over 1.2 billion people worldwide use its productivity suite.
No longer the evil Borg Empire, they have more respect for the business advantages of diversity than the Republican-patterned US federal government does.
I'm not a big fan of Windows because it's not unix. But the other software is great. Nothing else even comes close.
E-mail is generally too critical.
There's the problem, right there.
Email was never designed to be critical.
It's discoverable in litigation and unreliable and it's also insecure.
It's stored in one place per customer and a small net grabs a lot of shit.
Hell, Facebook Messenger is better.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
You have obviously no clue what you're talking about.
Email was designed to be highly reliable, and the pertinent specs (RFC2821 and updates) go out of their way to ensure that.
It also does not, unlike Facebook Messenger, depend on Facebook to keep operating it/not arbitrarily fuck it up like they already did several times when they intentionally broke support for 3rd party clients.
It's stored in one place per customer and a small net grabs a lot of shit.
I'm not sure what this gibberish is even supposed to mean.
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
Office 365 should be called Office 363 since it's down an average of almost 2 days per year. Just sayin'...
Yes and no.
I believe most of the time something like LibreOffice or G-Suite as they call it now is adequate. Nevertheless, Office still has a couple of things over the competition for the power users. But there's rarely ever a need for those added advantages.
If you're looking for a lot of integrations and capabilities, Open sourced LibreOffice is your go to. If you're looking for Ease-Of-Use, familiarity, and a handful of unduplicated as of yet solutions (negligible), then Office is the choice. All in all I'd agree that LibreOffice is better, especially for the price difference. But most businesses and the layperson like the familiarity and beauty of the UI of Office over LibreOffice.
Access is an abomination to databases. Yeah it has an easy configuration for those who create simple databases, but even MySQL will be hundreds of times better than anything that Access creates.
Will the Vatican City version support Church Latin?
I'm not sure what this gibberish is even supposed to mean.
That's because you don't have 40 goddam years experience in the business.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
So 40 goddam(sic) years of experience "in the business" makes you forget SMTP? Whatever your business is, it's obviously a joke since you couldn't have made it any clearer that you have nothing of substance to say, wrt. the parts you didn't even bother to quote.
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
Those poor bastards, what did they do to deserve this? Vatican excluded, we know exactly what they did.
small net grabs a lot of shit
That is the language a 40 year IT professional uses to describe email?
This isn't the BOFH section of the register, you know.
If more Access users would limit their scope to such a project, Access wouldn't get the hate that it does.
Actually, it apparently is.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Sorry, but anyone who thinks this isn't the case haven't used Exchange or Outlook. Ever. In any environment. I can claim any uptime figures I want by pulling random numbers out of my arse and posting anonymously.
....you should go an work for Microsoft. You know more than they do about managing Exchange apparently.