Hosted Exchange, SharePoint now widely on sale
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In five years, Microsoft expects half of all enterprise employees with e-mail to use a combined online and premises-based system like the company's Exchange Online, an executive said Monday at a launch event for that software and the SharePoint Online hosted collaboration application. About 500,000 users have already adopted Exchange Online since a limited release for large enterprises in October 2007, said Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, at the event in San Francisco.
That release made the two applications available, on dedicated Microsoft servers, to enterprises with 5,000 or more employees. Starting Monday, the services are available to all small, medium-sized and large organizations in the U.S., hosted on shared resources at Microsoft.