Microsoft repels Google with 40,000 e-mail account deal
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will migrate some 40,000 student user accounts to Microsoft's Live@edu hosted messaging and storage platform providing an alternative to the successful Google Apps education surge.
According to Microsoft, QUT joins "thousands of institutions around the world" by moving to the Live@edu platform, but the news of such deals has been mostly of Google's equivalent offering, including a recent Adelaide University win.
The Live@edu suite of online applications includes Microsoft Outlook Live, Microsoft Office Live Workspace and SkyDrive for storage. QUT evaluated a hosted, Web-based e-mail solution for students when existing email infrastructure "reached its limit of functionality and storage capacity".