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Microsoft Lync: sneak preview
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Yesterday’s good internet weather slickened up the demos at Microsoft TechEd here in Berlin no end. It wasn’t possible to tell whether the screens we were watching in the keynote speech were being served from PCs behind the curtains, or on another continent.
However, the Demo Gods swiftly departed for a more pressing engagement: today’s demos of Microsoft Lync suffered enormously, from capricious Wi-Fi links, low external bandwidth and the product demonstrator’s “all on a laptop” lifestyle.
If it was me having to demonstrate a heavy piece of kit built three or four stacked products deep on top of Server 2008, I’d have a quad-core laptop and a pared-down server as a virtual machine, just in case; but pretty clearly, the Lync demo team were not aware of just how good their bad demo actually was.
Some very good reasons not to choose a Microsoft hosted service
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
It’s amazing what you find when you read the Terms and Conditions.
Go to this page on the Microsoft downloads area and then download the file which is the Exchange Hosted Services Service Level Agreement document.
Scroll down to the bottom, and you will find what Microsoft will pay you if they fall foul of the SLA.
Basically, they will give you “Service Credits” for downtime, and at no point will the Credit exceed the value of what you pay Microsoft for the month of service provision. (more…)
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