Comments on: BPOS holdouts have “head in the sand”, says MVP

By: Loryan Strant

Loryan Strant — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:24:57 +0000

As I point out in my entire blog post (not just the excerpt used here) the BPOS platform was not built on cloud-ready products, but Office 365 was.
Therefore there is a need to move customers off the old platform and onto the one that was designed for future upgradeability with neglible/no customer impact.

By: Loryan Strant

Loryan Strant — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:22:27 +0000

That’s exactly it Dean.
Moving forward with Office 365 customers won’t be forced into such a change as they are with BPOS now – it will be a far smoother ride in the future.
For now Microsoft is effectively discontinuing the use of leaded petrol in its cloud vehicle and unfortunately (to continue with the analogy) customers will need to do what’s required to keep their car running – or change cars.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:07:18 +0000

I’m a little confused. Is BPOS === Office 2007 and Office 365 === Office 2010? That is, will something similar happen when Office 2013 or whatever comes next? I would have thought they’d learnt their lesson and built the ability to do in-place upgrades into Office 365 so that they don’t have to do this again…

By: PeterA

PeterA — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:41:52 +0000

I dont see them winning customers with this behavior. What happens when they migrate to office 730? Forced upgrade again?
It is almost like they are taking the software approach to cloudware. I think it will be a good lesson for early adopters as to which cloud providers offer the best long term investment.

Microsoft don’t sound … Safe?