Report Findings:

• Cloud-based mailboxes powered by Microsoft Exchange Server technology represent 31 percent of all worldwide business cloud mailboxes.

• Cloud-based messaging is expected to represent 43 percent of worldwide business mailboxes by 2018.

• Microsoft leads in the on-premise messaging and collaboration market with Exchange Server platform, which has a 64 percent market share. Over the next four years, it’s expected to increase to 76 percent.

• Exchange Server 2013 is not being adopted as fast as the company would like despite new features.

• Latest release of OWA narrows the gap between the webmail client and the full desktop Outlook experience.

• Many customers still slow to upgrade from previous versions of Outlook, but the report expects this to change.

• Cloud-based business mailboxes offered through Microsoft Office 365 and Exchange Hosting Partners currently account for 17 percent of worldwide Microsoft mailboxes.

• On-premise Exchange Server mailboxes represent an 83 percent market share.

• A dramatic shift is expected in the direction of more cloud-based mailboxes.

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