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The Evolution of Microsoft BPOS

Recent milestones, developments and changes to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite.

• By Kurt Mackie
• April 01, 2010

In a recent webinar, Kayvaan Ghassemieh, senior technical product manager for Microsoft Online Services, outlined recent milestones, developments and changes to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).

BPOS is Microsoft's cloud-based bundle of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online,

Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting.

Some highlights from Ghassemieh's presentation:

• There are 2 million paid BPOS seats at more than 1,000 companies
• BPOS is available in 22 markets worldwide
• Microsoft supports BPOS through six data centers (two each in North America, Asia and Europe)
• Mailbox sizes were expanded to 25GB in March
• Single sign-on capability is planned for the next release
• Other planned upgrades not yet assigned to a specific future release include IMAP support, public folders, additional APIs and beefed-up reporting capabilities.