{"id":42209,"date":"2013-04-18T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T02:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:03:06","slug":"enterprise-resisting-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/enterprise-resisting-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Resisting Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-108459\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dice.gif?resize=75%2C55&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"55\" \/>Microsoft has bet big on <a title=\"Microsoft Office 365\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/office365\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Office 365<\/a> but <em><a title=\"CITEworld\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citeworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CITEworld<\/a><\/em> <a title=\"Old ways die hard: Office 365 not penetrating the enterprise yet\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131104171925\/http:\/\/www.citeworld.com\/cloud\/21713\/old-ways-die-hard-office-365-not-penetrating-enterprise-yet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> so far, the big enterprises that make up the bulk of Microsoft&#8217;s revenue haven&#8217;t jumped on board. Microsoft channel boss <a title=\"Jon Roskill \" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jon_Roskill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jon Roskill<\/a> <a title=\"Microsoft Gets Serious in the Cloud with Office 365 Open\" href=\"http:\/\/rcpmag.com\/articles\/2013\/04\/01\/cloud-gets-serious.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> <a title=\"Redmond Channel Partner\" href=\"http:\/\/rcpmag.com\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Redmond Channel Partner<\/em><\/a> that &#8220;90 percent&#8221; of <strong>Office 365<\/strong> customers are from businesses with fewer than 50 employees, and explained, &#8220;<em>small business is at the core of this product customer base.<\/em>&#8221; Mr. Roskill also said that Office 365 &#8220;penetration is still in the low single digits&#8221; in other words, <strong>less than 5%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.office.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-108461 size-medium\" title=\"Microsoft Office 365\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft_office-365_logo.jpg?resize=150%2C48&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Microsoft Office 365\" width=\"150\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft_office-365_logo.jpg?resize=150%2C48&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft_office-365_logo.jpg?resize=75%2C24&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft_office-365_logo.jpg?resize=768%2C247&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft_office-365_logo.jpg?resize=1024%2C329&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft_office-365_logo.jpg?w=1233&amp;ssl=1 1233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Microsoft_office-365_logo.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Office 365 was originally introduced in June 2011, and the first focus was on Microsoft-<strong>hosted versions<\/strong> of servers like <strong><a title=\"Microsoft Exchange\" href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exchange<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Microsoft SharePoint\" href=\"http:\/\/sharepoint.microsoft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">SharePoint<\/a><\/strong>. But <strong>enterprise customers<\/strong> tend to have multi-year <a title=\"Technology Licensing Lawyers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalmatch.com\/law-library\/article\/technology-licensing-lawyers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lawlibrary noopener noreferrer\">license agreements.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has <\/em><em>blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprises are resisting the Microsoft  Office 365 subscription model large firms seem to prefer Office 2013 with a perpetual license to manage their costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[420,101,173,82,421,1775,1607,1606,1031],"class_list":["post-42209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","tag-aapl","tag-apple","tag-cloud-computing","tag-microsoft","tag-msft","tag-office","tag-office-2013","tag-office-365","tag-saas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42209"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132841,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209\/revisions\/132841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}