HONG KONG, November 13, 2009 - Azurance, a hosted application provider, has become the first hosting company in Asia to launch Microsoft Exchange 2010, following Microsoft’s release Tuesday.  Some Azurance staff have been migrated already, while some stay on 2007, so that they can support customers who choose to split users between the two versions.  Leveraging off the new Exchange features, Azurance subscribers will be able to further reduce their total cost of ownership (TCO) and benefit from improved reliability and stability.

Azurance has already begun user migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010.  “All existing premium Exchange users who do not opt-out will be automatically upgraded, free of charge to the new version within one (1) week”, said Eddy Kuk, Managing Director of Azurance.

Exciting new features of the messaging and collaboration platform include:

• Administrative advances that can help to lower operational costs and save time 15-20%, delegating common or specialised task to end users without providing them full administrative rights
• Inbox management tools that help users sort through communications each day, such as enhanced conversation view that automatically arranges messages into threads and MailTips that inform users about details that could result in unnecessary or undeliverable e-mail messages before they click send
• Voicemail enhancements like speech-to-text previews of received voice messages
• Mobility enhancements such as nickname cache, storing e-mail addresses of recent recipients, users can see if they replied or forwarded an e-mail regardless of whether they replied from Outlook client or Outlook Web App, improved messaging flagging and much more!