Microsoft listened to the IT community's (and my own) lashings on Office 365, because the recent February 2013 overhaul of the business suite is like night and day to what its predecessor resembled. I lauded Google's top notch spam filtering engine their dedication to treating browser users as first class citizens and best-in-class release schedules for new features and bug fixes. Only seven months ago, I put Google Apps and Office 365 head to head in a cloud email showdown. Google Apps came out ahead with a comfortable lead in most aspects, and rightfully so. Yet even as Office 365 for consumers came out to relatively loud fanfare, the main attraction of the Office 365 product line is the business-oriented offerings.
The company's past three years have been nothing short of a cloud-cluster of budding services while simultaneously sun-setting legacy on-premise products. Windows Small Business Server bid its farewell, while runaway hits like Azure sweep the Redmond, Wash.
If you don't believe Microsoft is transorming itself into a company solidly rooted in the cloud, you're clearly missing the writing on the wall. In the February 2013 release, Microsoft turned a new page and proved why it's a reliable comeback kid in the cloud. And spam filtering was bottom tier, proving to do little in stemming waves of junk mail. Its treatment of browser-based users who wished to forego desktop versions of Outlook and Office disappointed.
Outages continuously plagued the service. Merely a half year ago, my thoughts on Office 365 were salty at best.
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