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1. 1. www.sys-con.com

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   Published on: 7/13/2008   Last Visited: 7/13/2008

   At least that's Microsoft senior vice-president Chris Capossela told Reuters going into the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit the other day.
   
   That's one of the reasons Microsoft has been building massive data centers like Google , adding a reported 10,000 servers to the population a month , to host Exchange Online and its friends, Office SharePoint Online and Office Communications Online.Exchange Online is of course the SaaS side of Microsoft's traditional Exchange mail and messaging software.
   
   Microsoft will be charging a larger monthly fee for Exchange Online than it would to simply buy the traditional software but Microsoft's margins may not be as good, Capossela said, since it has all that hardware overhead.It will all depend on how efficiently it can run a cloud.The customer of course saves himself CAPEX and OPEX charges by offloading them onto Microsoft.
   
   Coke is already an Exchange Online customer having signed up for 70,000 seats and forsaking IBM's Lotus Domino system.Energizer is another.Capossela apparently thinks Microsoft could run off any number of Lotus accounts.

2. 2. www.eastcountynews.com

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   Published on: 5/24/2008   Last Visited: 5/24/2008

   In an interview ahead of the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit, Chris Capossela, who manages Microsoft's Office products, said the company will see more and more companies abandon their own in-house computer systems and shift to "cloud computing," a less expensive alternative.
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   Capossela, a senior vice president at Microsoft, said it plans to be "agnostic" by offering customers the choice between a traditional licensing model or a subscription-based service model embraced by rivals like Salesforce.com and Google Inc .
   
   "That's where we think we are far stronger than our service-religious competition who think it's all going to be in the cloud," he said."A lot of companies are not ready to take their money out of the pillowcase and put it in the bank."
   
   Exchange Online, the service offering for its Exchange mail and messaging server software, will be the primary application adopted by corporate customers, according to Capossela.
   
   "In five years, 50 percent of our Exchange mailboxes will be Exchange Online," said Capossela, who expects a portion of Exchange Online customers to come from customers switching from International Business Machines' Lotus Domino system.
   
   According to research firm Radicati, Exchange will run about 210 million corporate e-mail accounts in 2008, growing to 319 million mailboxes in 2012.
   
   IN THE CLOUDS
   
   The shift to cloud computing will introduce some changes, according to Capossela, in the earnings model at Microsoft's business division, which generated revenue of $16.4 billion and operating profit of $10.8 billion in fiscal 2007.
   
   Currently, customers pay Microsoft a licensing fee for the software, then buy their own computer and hire their own technology staff to manage those systems.
   
   In a services business, the customer will pay Microsoft a larger fee, since Microsoft also runs and maintains all the hardware.But Microsoft's profit margins may not be "as high," Capossela said, even though revenue may be more consistent.
   
   The key for Microsoft will be to run its computers systems as efficiently as possible to reduce hardware costs.
   
   "That's where we make the business model work," said Capossela, 38, who worked in his earlier years at the company as a speech writing assistant for co-founder Bill Gates.
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   It's a staggering amount of computing power, about the equivalent what popular social networking site Facebook uses, according to Capossela.

3. 3. www.theoutlookonline.com

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   Published on: 5/24/2008   Last Visited: 5/24/2008

   In an interview ahead of the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit, Chris Capossela, who manages Microsoft's Office products, said the company will see more and more companies abandon their own in-house computer systems and shift to "cloud computing," a less expensive alternative.
   ...
   Capossela, a senior vice president at Microsoft, said it plans to be "agnostic" by offering customers the choice between a traditional licensing model or a subscription-based service model embraced by rivals like Salesforce.com and Google Inc .
   
   "That's where we think we are far stronger than our service-religious competition who think it's all going to be in the cloud," he said."A lot of companies are not ready to take their money out of the pillowcase and put it in the bank."
   
   Exchange Online, the service offering for its Exchange mail and messaging server software, will be the primary application adopted by corporate customers, according to Capossela.
   
   "In five years, 50 percent of our Exchange mailboxes will be Exchange Online," said Capossela, who expects a portion of Exchange Online customers to come from customers switching from International Business Machines' Lotus Domino system.
   
   According to research firm Radicati, Exchange will run about 210 million corporate e-mail accounts in 2008, growing to 319 million mailboxes in 2012.
   
   IN THE CLOUDS
   
   The shift to cloud computing will introduce some changes, according to Capossela, in the earnings model at Microsoft's business division, which generated revenue of $16.4 billion and operating profit of $10.8 billion in fiscal 2007.
   
   Currently, customers pay Microsoft a licensing fee for the software, then buy their own computer and hire their own technology staff to manage those systems.
   
   In a services business, the customer will pay Microsoft a larger fee, since Microsoft also runs and maintains all the hardware.But Microsoft's profit margins may not be "as high," Capossela said, even though revenue may be more consistent.
   
   The key for Microsoft will be to run its computers systems as efficiently as possible to reduce hardware costs.
   
   "That's where we make the business model work," said Capossela, 38, who worked in his earlier years at the company as a speech writing assistant for co-founder Bill Gates.
   ...
   It's a staggering amount of computing power, about the equivalent what popular social networking site Facebook uses, according to Capossela.