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That's why Microsoft has two different levels of managed Sharepoint hosting: Office Live (very small businesses), and Microsoft Sharepoint Online (small or larg
by briansmith 18y ago
That's why Microsoft has two different levels of managed Sharepoint hosting: Office Live (very small businesses), and Microsoft Sharepoint Online (small or large businesses). Similarly, they have Microsoft Exchange Online, which is managed Exchange hosting. They are building caching infrastructure into Windows 7 so they can offer even Active Directory and file sharing as remote, managed services.
As far as I can tell, all of their server-side software is or will be offered in a Microsoft-hosted-and-managed configuration. And, it won't be trivial to switch back and forth, but it will at least be possible to do so.
Additionally, Microsoft seems to be working with Amazon Web Services since AWS supports Windows Server. If you don't want Microsoft to host your applications then you can do it yourself on AWS or on your own servers.