Microsoft continues its push to goose adoption of Office 365, and slow the inroads that Google continues to make in the SMB business with Google Apps for Business.

Microsoft and GoDaddy announce strategic partnership to help small businesses.

The strategic agreement between Microsoft and GoDaddy provides small businesses with seamless access to professional email connected to their domain names, cloud storage and a full suite of Microsoft productivity solutions. Plus, with GoDaddy, users receive around-the-clock live customer service, helping save time best spent focusing on their business. Also as part of the agreement, Microsoft created a unique offering of domain-based email and storage especially built with GoDaddy’s very small businesses in mind. 

I haven’t looked closely at the actual offering, but tailoring a super-simple solution for tiny businesses is a good idea.

I really like some of the thinking behind Evomail+, the new release of Evomail redesigned for iOS 7. But I can’t switch to it without going back to hundreds of email filters, because of how effective the new tabbed interface at Gmail is, and how that has allowed me to subscribe to a larger number of information sources, scan them quickly and then bulk delete them without the fear of losing something important. Anyone that would like to move me from Gmail will have to deal with that barrier to switching.

Google’s  linking of social network contacts to email raises concerns , principally because it was introduced as an opt out service. But apparently, they realize what a pain that is, since they disabled that model for celebrities. I wonder if the initial celebrities involved were people like Sergey Brin?

BlackBerry CEO John Chen says you can be an iPhone or Android customer, and also a BlackBerry customer, in an solid interview at CrackBerry.