Sunday, March 31, 2013

Microsoft Scores Three Higher-Education Office 365 Contracts

<p>Three universities recently inked Microsoft Office 365 contracts -- Sacramento State University, University of Miami and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.</p><p>Sacramento State University, which is part of the California State University system, is moving 50,000 accounts to Microsoft's cloud-based productivity and collaboration suite, Microsoft revealed at its annual United States Public Sector CIO Summit on Wednesday.</p><p>Office 365 for Education launched as a free service for educational institutions last year, succeeding Microsoft's Live@edu service. The service includes features such as e-mail, document sharing, Web conferencing, Web site creation, 7 GB of storage per user, calendaring, instant messaging and Office Web apps (Word, OneNote, PowerPoint and Excel accessed through a browser).</p><p>According to Microsoft, Sacramento State made the move to save on costs and consolidate services, The campus was already an Exchange and Office customer.</p><p><a href="http://rcpmag.com/articles/2013/03/27/higher-ed-office-365-contracts.aspx">Keep reading...</a></p>

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