Good article by Zack Whittaker about the number of users supported in education by some of the online players :
… Microsoft and Google are still plotting away at each other in attempts to get colleges and universities on side with their own email, document and general productivity suites.
Google hasn’t got back to me with any of the questions I sent over in regards to this vague tweet:
Since then there has been an awful lot of email to’ing and fro’ing between myself and a number of public relations folk. My last post comparing the two suites was a few months ago; it’s time for a revision and seeing where universities rank the in-house email killers, by deconstructing the jargon and seemingly meaningless spin. …
Although the Live@EDU estimates of 50 Million + users is not an official Microsoft number it at least shows this is very, very large :
… Live@edu is used by more than 10,000 “schools”
Microsoft finally updated its press release to confirm that over 10,000 “schools” – which as Americans often describe school as “a form of education” not mutually exclusive to compulsory education but university/college also. Considering most universities have over 10,000 students, I would fairly say that there are definitely over 7 million users using Live@edu; it’s probably closer to 50 million if not even more. …
Source : ZDnet.com
