Microsoft produced a few relatively under-the-radar storage announcements this past week.
At the Mix ten conference,
Office Standard, in the course of one of the periods,
Office 2010 License, the SQL Azure staff introduced that current SQL Azure buyers might be given access towards the SQL Azure 50 GB preview on the request basis. Microsoft isn;t however sharing availability or pricing details for the 50 GB choice,
Windows 7 Code, but a spokesperson mentioned they;d share these particulars “in the coming months” as part of the next SQL Azure service update. (Thanks to OakLeaf Systems; blogger Roger Jennings for the heads up on this 1.)
On the cloud-hosted Exchange front,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, Microsoft also introduced this week that it has increased the size of Exchange Online default mailboxes from 5 GB to 25 GB.
“This 5x increase is free of charge and automatically implemented on new users.You can increase current users to 25GB if you need as your overall allocation for mailboxes has been increased to (25GB x number of users) instead of (5GB x number of users),
Office 2007 Product Key,” explained company officials in a blog posting this week. (I found that posting via Ars Technica.)