If you are having trouble viewing this e-mail, please view the online version. | | | | | | | | | | | | Put Your Head in the Clouds—with Your Feet on the Ground! | | You want your business to look and be professional, and that means having a reliable, highly secure, enterprise-class set of tools for e-mail, messaging, conferencing, and collaboration. At the same time, you don't want to take on the cost of a server and an IT staff. The solution? Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), the affordable cloud-computing subscription that gives you big-business tools at mom-and-pop prices. | | | | | A Tip That Can Put You on Cloud 9 | | Small businesses often face a sobering reality: They know there are technology applications that could make their business more efficient, but the cost of implementing and maintaining new hardware and software can be prohibitive. That's where cloud computing can actually bring a sunny forecast. Shifting your IT infrastructure and management burdens to a third-party, cloud-based provider can get you enterprise-class technologies for less than you'd expect. | | | | | Digital Events | | | Microsoft Online Services: The New Wave of Cloud Services | | Microsoft Online Services are undergoing a significant and rapid transformation that is bringing richer and more powerful capabilities to these cloud offerings. Join us to learn how your organization can use these new capabilities to drive business productivity and control costs. Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time (U.S. & Canada) | | | | | The Business Value of Online Services | | Microsoft hosted cloud services provide organizations with rich enterprise-grade communications and collaboration capabilities in an extremely cost-effective manner. Watch this recorded webcast to learn how organizations of all sizes, from multinationals to small businesses, are choosing Microsoft Online Services to drive their business productivity and control costs. Available on Demand | | | | Offers | | Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite delivers hosted communications and collaboration tools for a streamlined experience with high availability, comprehensive security, and simplified IT management. Minimum of 5 seats required. | | | | Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange is a hosted service that helps protect businesses' inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. Purchase by September 30, 2010, and enjoy savings of up to 30 percent. | | | | Whether you need software, laptops, peripherals, or accessories, the Microsoft Store has your business needs covered. | | | | | | Join the Microsoft Business Resource Center for FREE, personalized help in getting more from your Microsoft software. | | | Tips & Tricks | | Cloud computing gives you anywhere, anytime access; reliability; and cost savings. Phil Sorgen, Microsoft VP, explains how you can make the most of your existing software investment and leverage the benefits of cloud computing. | | | | Manage your messages seamlessly on your phone and computer using Microsoft Exchange 2010, a flexible and reliable messaging platform that can help you lower your messaging costs, increase productivity with anywhere access to business communications, and safeguard your business. | | | | Downloads | | With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance with features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility. Try Exchange Server 2010 in your own environment with a free 120-day software trial, or get a free Exchange Online account for 30 days. | | | | Listen as IT Investigators Keith and Matt get their heads in the cloud with Shannon Day of Microsoft to cover the ABCs of cloud services. Don't want to give up your server, but are curious about how the cloud can help? Let the IT Investigators help you out. | | | | | | | | | | | * | For more offer details and restrictions, please click here. | ** | For more offer details and restrictions, please click here. | *** | For more offer details and restrictions, please click here. | Microsoft respects your privacy. Please read our online Privacy Statement. If you would prefer to no longer receive this newsletter, please click here to unsubscribe or reply to this message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. To set your contact preferences for other Microsoft communications, see the communications preferences section of the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA, 98052, USA | | | | | |