Microsoft upping Office 365 fees for resellers AGAIN Microsoft is once again plumping up the cheques it dishes out to channel folk across the globe as a sweetener to dealers as they try to push its Office 365 cloud services to customers. The software titan already pushed up advisor's fees to 18 per cent at last month's Worldwide Partner Conference and vowed to pay top accredited …
Was when a business (client) of mine was looking for a relative easy external Exchange server for use with their internal Outlook clients and external phone clients. In those cases I think Exchange-online (part of 365) can be helpful.
But all the rest of 365 is something I'm not getting my business involved with. IMO too much risk of extensive support costs overlay (who do you think the customer will contact with problems, hm?).
When it comes to Office then I always recommend the desktop (2010) over the cloud.
"Oh no, a drunk driver crashed into the phone box outside by the street, and now all of your software has disappeared". How are you enjoying your thin-client and outsourced "cloud" now? Look how much money you're saving by paying everyone not to work (except the IT staff you got rid of by going to the "cloud"), or how much business you lose when you have to shut down for the whole day(s). If you are one of the morons that is dumb enough to buy into the new (unless you count when this was how it was done in the 80's) "cloud" idea, then you deserve to pay dearly for that shaft you are inserting.
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