“The hype starts today, so watch out. Microsoft formally launched the long-promised Office 365 set of cloud services for using Microsoft Office, Exchange, Lync (for voice and video communications), and SharePoint in the cloud, available in a variety of subscription options,” Galen Gruman writes for InfoWorld.
“Even before the formal release today, Microsoft had been marketing Office 365 via emails advertising its capabilities,” Gruman writes. “If you got that ad, you no doubt saw how iPhones, iPads, BlackBerrys, and Android devices (and Macs) were all noted as compatible in the sales pitch for Exchange capabilities. You then saw in the rest of the promo Microsoft touting the rest of Office 365’s features’ mobile compatibility.”
Gruman writes, “Here’s the catch: The Office 365 ad doesn’t specifically claim that non-Windows platforms are supported beyond Exchange; it instead switches to the generic word ‘mobile’ in the descriptions of its other capabilities so that you infer that it does. Don’t be fooled.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Misleadingsoft.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]