Microsoft Lowers The Prices Of Online Suite And Suggested Googleâ€™s Inflating The Adoption Figures

6th November 2009

Microsoft is slashing prices of the Business Productivity Online Suite by one third as it has started this service in 15 new countries. In the promotion of the price cut and the market expansion, one of the Microsoft exec has also questioned the figures as trumpeted by Google for the rival Google Apps suite.

BPOS includes the Web-hosted versions of the Exchange e-mail of Microsoft, the SharePoint collaboration, and also some other Office communication related apps, which are now costing at $10 for one user for a month, which is down from $15 per user for a month. Microsoft has also expanded hosted storage limit up to 25 GB for a user, which previously was 10 GB.

A year after the official launch of BPOS, it is being used by a million of the paid customers as announced by Microsoft Corporation. Chris Capossela who is the senior vice president of group of information worker product management at the Microsoft Corp., has told Computerworld that 70 percent of these users come from IBM Lotus Notes or the Novell GroupWise. This looks to be a wonderful figure as it means that they are getting some new businesses too, and are not only migrating existing business to cloud.