Forbes are reporting on a recent Microsoft Blog post, claiming a 775% increase in Cloud Services uptake from regions that are enforcing social distancing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition, there's been a 3x surge in Remote Desktop use and the Number of Teams users has more than doubled to 44 Million since November 2019.
How has your use of on-line meetings changed since the pandemic hit?
takyon: Apparently Microsoft's Claim of 775 Percent Surge in Cloud Services Wasn't Really Accurate
The company has now made a correction, saying that the 775 percent increase was experienced by Microsoft Teams, not all of the cloud offerings, which isn't as surprising since the video calling app generated over 900 million meeting and calling minutes daily in a one-week period alone.
As it turns out the figure also only came from Microsoft Teams' users in Italy, where millions of people were put under lockdown. The corrected statement now reads:
"We have seen a 775 percent increase in Teams' calling and meeting monthly users in a one month period in Italy, where social distancing or shelter in place orders have been enforced." - Microsoft
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday March 31 2020, @12:12PM (2 children)
Can they be more specific about exactly what services people are using?...
Oh, right. "cloud". Cloud cloud cloud, cloudy cloud cloud, in the cloud because cloud.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday March 31 2020, @12:24PM
The specifics are lacking and are probably so unflattering that they will never be revealed on purpose. The claimed increase is probably all resulting from increased use of Hotmail, or whatever it is called lately, behind that, on the long shot that they aren't just plain lying again. Their other stuff seems to have been in decline and even more unreliable. So by elimination that would leave those trying to do remote work or socializing via Hotmail.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday March 31 2020, @06:49PM
Yes but you need the appy apps to appcloud the cloudy cloud!
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