SwiftOnSecurity

I don’t see any vision of the future where Microsoft doesn’t run the entire enterprise business stack and everything else dies.

Microsoft’s most important asset hasn’t been Windows for a very long time. It was Exchange and Excel all along.

I joined org at a pivotal time. Running XP, no management, + ancient email. Every replacement was on table. There were no other options.

Do you know the single most important factor in my org staying with the full Microsoft stack? Outlook calendar functionality in Exchange.

That was it. Various things were proposed, from other companies. They didn’t support Outlook calendars. And that was the end.

I’ve gone through this conversation THREE TIMES. Exchange 5.5 upgrade, Exchange 2010 upgrade, Outlook 2007 EOL. There is no other option.

Calendaring with the two decades of features in Outlook+Exchange is a MUCH bigger problem set than you realize, or that I even understand.