I am always blown away when I hear of a business that has switched to Google mail to save a few dollars a year.
We’ve covered several times why Google is simply an ineffective business email service compared to Microsoft Exchange, but let’s take it further.
Here’s a troubling account of how a Gmail security breach almost cost this person his business.

There’s been a lot said and written on the brilliance of Google, but I’d like to throw my own perspective in the mix.
Google may have executed one of the more brilliant schemes in the last five years, and I’m not talking about Google Wave or Google Voice or even Google Android.

With the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft is clearly hoping to restore some prestige to its operating system that it may have lost after the launch of Vista.

But in regards to Microsoft Exchange support, it was Apple's launch of Snow Leopard that says more about the email system than Windows 7.

There’s no wonder that when software giant Microsoft released details on Exchange 2010, saving money was the theme.
The recession has left no industry unscathed and Microsoft was smart to recognize that businesses are looking to save money.
In Exchange 2010, you can expect the key benefits to all go towards improving your bottom line.
A big new feature is an email archiving system built straight into exchange. Your company’s email is one of the most important sources of information your business has, but only a few companies are taking the proper steps to protect it.
According to Osterman Research, only 28 percent of organizations currently archive their email content.  That’s not exactly the majority.
As far as cost savings go, Microsoft hosted exchange is all about making your office more efficient.
Business owners know that a loss of productivity is one of their major expenses.  According to Basex, Inc., businesses are expected to lose $650 million because of unnecessary interruptions during the day. Email can of course be a huge interruption. The average employee is expected to receive 93 emails a day by 2010. That’s a lot of interruptions.
Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2010 centers around preventing those interruptions by giving users more information on the emails they are replying to and options on avoiding long email strings.
Here’s a full list of new features:

• -MailTips. Warn users before they commit an e-mail faux pas such as sending mail to large distribution groups, to recipients who are out of the office or to recipients outside the organization, helping protect against information leaks and reduce unnecessary e-mail messages.
• -Voice Mail Preview. See text previews of voice mail directly in Outlook.
• -Ignore Conversation. This e-mail “mute button” allows people to remove themselves from an irrelevant e-mail string, reducing unwanted e-mail and runaway reply-all threads.
• -Conversation View. Combine related e-mail messages in a single conversation to reduce inbox clutter.
• -Call Answering Rules. Create customized “Press 1 for …” call-routing menus with Exchange voice mail.
• -Consistent Experience. Use Outlook on the PC, a mobile phone or a browser for the same experience with enhancements in Outlook Mobile and Outlook Web Access

Of course this only a few features you can expect in hosted exchange 2010. A new Web interface also looks promising as well as better integration with non-Internet Explorer browsers.

For more information on in Microsoft Exchange and when 2010 will be available, contact Final ASP or call 1-800-959-9034.

We jst got back from presenting a very large deal to a customer for Hosted Exchange, Office communications server and Sharepoint.  This client would be migrating from a very large Novell Groupwise environment.

I was able to locate some very useful information about Novell Groupwise to Hosted Microsoft Exchange here:

In addition to that the Quest Software Groupwise to Miocrosoft Exchange Migrator is always a useful tool for these migrations.