Here at Connecting Point, we strive to not only resolve service requests in an efficient, customer satisfaction focused manner, but also to reduce overall service requests from our clients. The goal is really to stabilize, standardize, and optimize our client’s networks so that their employees can do their jobs efficiently and not have to take time out of their busy day to deal with technology issues.

The next time you begin to consider acquiring technology gear like computers, servers, networking equipment or other items, you will probably be approached with a decision…do I lease this stuff or should I buy it?  I would like to focus on some of the benefits of leasing and why it’s a smart idea.

As many of you may have seen by now, Microsoft recently released their next new version of their Office application suite, Office 2016. This is the first new version of Office that we are seeing signs of Microsoft’s new cloud first strategy; this version of Office released to Office 365 almost a week before you could buy the retail/volume license version, and they made it the default version of Office that gets installed from Office 365. In fact, it’s a little difficult to install the old Office 2013 version from Office 365.
Microsoft SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)
Right now, we aren’t recommending that everyone go out and immediately switch to Office 2016. As we advised with Windows 10, we want to make sure the software is stable before everyone adopts it.