Microsoft, RIM expected to unveil new free hosted Blackberry service

Microsoft and RIM are set to unveil a new providing, perhaps as shortly as March sixteen — a Hosted Blackberry Enterprise Services for buyers employing Exchange 2010 Online, Microsoft’s hosted Exchange e-mail service, in accordance to my resources.
office 2011 previously provides a Microsoft-hosted Hosted Blackberry Enterprise Service (BES) offering that expenses $10 a month per user. Word is that the new Hosted BES providing will be free for existing office 2011 mac end users.
A single individual in the know stated the present Hosted BES offering’s end-date is June thirty — the end of the month in the course of which microsoft office 2011 is believed to be launching its Business office 365 cloud platform, according to what I’ve heard. Office 365 is Microsoft’s replacement for its current Business Productiveness On-line Suite (BPOS) and Reside@edu platforms.
When Business office 365 moves from its beta position to final, nevertheless, there could be a delay in obtaining the new hosted BES services on the re-engineered platform, one particular of my contacts said. Microsoft will likely supply some sort of quit-gap answer that calls for some on-premises servers right up until BES can be up-to-date for Workplace 365, that contact stated. I’m not clear if the cost of the new hosted BES service will still be zero as soon as Business office 365 goes live or not.
I’ve asked Microsoft for comment on the expected new BES deal and its Blackberry-hosting plans when Office 365 launches. I will update this submit if and when I get a response.
This just in: Microsoft is confirming the cost cut to zero of its hosted BES services, by way of a blog publish on March sixteen. Microsoft officials also stated that Blackberry will be providing a RIM-hosted version of the service for Trade On the web consumers later on this 12 months.
“RIM is only cellular OS that does not use (Microsoft) ActiveSync-conscious units and has a separate gadget management platform - the BES environment,” one particular of the aforementioned sources explained. “Most huge enterprise buyers operate a on premise BES server to get the state-of-the-art device administration.”