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Ask HN: Business case for cloud i.e. Office 365 Email

2 points by Paraesthetic ↗ HN
I've been tasked with convincing my boss who is quite adverse to the idea of cloud based anything to move our email server to the cloud. Have any of you had any problems with cloud email, data corruption etc, or has it made your lives a whole lot easier. I'm kind of hoping for the latter.

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ggm
Microsofts product works fine, but works finest if you are willing to live in their mail client. Outlook-on-steroids is good if you like more icons and frobs and whistles than you can point a stick at. If you like Mail.app or any third party client, bear in mind that IMAP and POP are poor cousins, and the implementation of MAPI by hands other than Redmond is .. well its different. So, you can make third party mail work, and make bits of calendar work, but .. in the end, you will be assimilated.

Google just works. Its fine. They know everything about you anyway so its an entirely rational choice. But, you do get driven to using their web app model. Some people love it. I love it. I know others hate it.

[dead] Paraesthetic
Thanks, Thats a fairly helpful comment. As a company we are pretty all in on Redmond anyway so this seems like the logical next step.

We looked at the Google services a year or so ago, and most people turned up their nose at the idea of using 'school grade services in a professional organisation'. (The perception in this part of the legal sector is that Google makes services for schools and children). I gave up with Google because the resistance to their services and perceived lack of privacy and security were too much of a vertical slope to push that boulder up.