We announced the launch of our Business Productivity Online Standard (BPOS) Suite in October 2008 which currently comprises the following offerings:
For More information on the suite, take a look at our main site which is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/online/default.mspx
The Suite isn't yet available outside the US but if you do have a US postal address you can sign up for the trial by going here:
https://mocp.microsoftonline.com/site/default.aspx
It is worth noting that we already had a number of hosted services for business up and running prior to this announcement. These services include Office Live Meeting (web conferencing), Exchange Hosted Services (email filtering, archiving and anti virus) and Dynamics (CRM). Its interesting how sometimes people don't necessarily associate these services with our new Online Suite and assume the suite is the first phase of our online activity but we have a long history in hosting. Since the emergence of the Internet, the aim has always been to offer our partners and customers choice in their deployment of our solutions to match their needs, Online - Partner Hosted or hosted by Microsoft and BPOS is just the next step!
I look at each of the offerings in more detail in future posts.