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Microsoft, RIM expected to unveil new free hosted Blackberry service

Microsoft and RIM are set to unveil a new offering, perhaps as shortly as March sixteen — a Hosted Blackberry Enterprise Support for consumers making use of Exchange 2010 Online, Microsoft’s hosted Exchange e-mail provider, according to my resources.

office 2011 previously provides a Microsoft-hosted Hosted Blackberry Enterprise Provider (BES) presenting that expenses $ten a month per user. Word is that the new Hosted BES offering will be cost-free for existing office 2011 mac end users.

One particular person in the know stated the current Hosted BES offering’s end-date is June 30 — the end of the month in the course of which microsoft office 2011 is considered to be launching its Workplace 365 cloud platform, in accordance to what I’ve heard. Office 365 is Microsoft’s alternative for its current Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and Reside@edu platforms.

As soon as Workplace 365 moves from its beta standing to closing, however, there could be a delay in obtaining the new hosted BES support on the re-engineered platform, one particular of my contacts said. Microsoft will probable supply some sort of stop-gap answer that needs some on-premises servers right up until BES can be up-to-date for Office 365, that contact said. I’m not clear if the price of the new hosted BES provider will still be zero once Business office 365 goes live or not.

I’ve asked Microsoft for comment on the expected new BES deal and its Blackberry-hosting plans as soon as Office 365 launches. I will update this publish if and when I get a response.

This just in: Microsoft is confirming the cost cut to zero of its hosted BES support, via a blog publish on March sixteen. Microsoft officials also said that Blackberry will be offering a RIM-hosted model of the provider for Exchange On the internet consumers later on this 12 months.

“RIM is only cellular OS that does not use (Microsoft) ActiveSync-aware gadgets and has a separate device management platform - the BES environment,” 1 of the aforementioned sources explained. “Most big enterprise consumers operate a on premise BES server to get the superior machine management.”