It’s been nearly two years since Microsoft unveiled its cloud computing offering, Business Productivity Online Standard (BPOS) suite. Microsoft BPOS suite offers online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Live Meeting and Office Communications. It is sold by dozens of partners and has hundreds of thousands of individual users.

In this article for Techtarget, I discuss why BPOS is attractive to VARs, where it comes up short, and what Google is doing in the hosted services space.