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Microsoft Launches Office 365 in 10 New Markets, Eyes Expansion in Nearly 100 New Markets By Next Year (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the global-expansion dept.

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.

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  1. Microsoft and Gates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    No longer the evil Borg Empire, they have more respect for the business advantages of diversity than the Republican-patterned US federal government does.

  2. Microsoft is the king of productivity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not a big fan of Windows because it's not unix. But the other software is great. Nothing else even comes close.

  3. Re:Have They Fixed Their Current Problems? by fisted · · Score: 2

    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.

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  4. Vatican City Version by colinrichardday · · Score: 2

    Will the Vatican City version support Church Latin?

  5. Re:Have They Fixed Their Current Problems? by fisted · · Score: 2

    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.

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