I have some bad news for the Luddites. The loom is already here! This past Wednesday, on a podcast I co-host with Karl Palachuk HERE [http://www.cloudservicesroundtable.com/], we interviewed two members of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) team about its hosted services and application offering.
The "net-net" of the well-attended one-hour show was that cloud computing is already here today, whether you like it or not. That is, regardless of your political beliefs or religious convictions, reististance if futile.

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Network operators are aggressively targeting small and midsized businesses as the primary market for emerging cloud telephony services, positioning cloud telephony as an economical way to take advantage of a full range of advanced applications such as unified communications, according to the latest report from Heavy Reading IP Services Insider (www.lightreading.com/entvoip), a paid research service of TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com).

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Nothing like getting together with an old friend to catch-up. I did that late last Friday afternoon with Scott from MooseLogic, a well-known Seattle-b...

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The more I speak with people about Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), the more I learn about thier hopes, wants and fears. It seem...

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Did I really just call Jenny Hall the next Bill Gates on the Computer Outlook radio show? And listen to how I described Cyndi and Patti. Listen here t...

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Hang on for one of those stories. When I was a kid growing up in Alaska, I literally walked over a mile to school , Stellar Secondary in Anchorage. Mu...

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We're back in 2010 with our Beer Summits! Join us next week in California and have a beer on us! We'll talk anything and everything about SMB technolo...

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 Shhh....I’m just finishing a meeting with the Microsoft BPOS development team in Building 6* in Redmond and they just showed me MOSDAL. There is a webinar Thursday, Feb 4^th at 11:00AM PST (sign up at this link) to learn about MOSDAL...

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SMB Beer Summit, Feb 9, 8PM, Pasadena, CA: Discuss SMB VoIP, spam fighting. Sponsored by Spamsoap, SMB Nation. Max 25 attendees: http://bit.ly/bNCnP5 ...

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