Microsoft Exchange
Exchange business-class email helps increase user productivity while protecting your data. Get it as a hosted service or run it on your servers.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Microsoft Office 365
Features
- Real time collaboration
- Mail Server
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- chat-servers
- collaborative
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Microsoft to increase on-premises server and CAL Suite prices in 2025Microsoft will increase prices for all standalone on-premises server products - such as SharePoint ...
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What is Microsoft Exchange?
Exchange business-class email helps increase user productivity while protecting your data. Get it as a hosted service or run it on your servers.
Adapts to your work style
Exchange helps you collaborate on your critical documents and gives you a focused inbox that prioritizes important messages and adapts to your work style, so you can get more done–faster.
An intelligent inbox
Get access to a more personalized inbox with helpful features and a smarter, more organized way to view and interact with email. Search enhancements give you faster and more complete results. With Add-ins, get powerful customization and extensibility, which connect you to modern services and internal line-of-business applications.
Powerful calendaring
Organize your time with a calendaring system that goes beyond basic scheduling of appointments and commitments. Automatically capture events from email such as flights and hotel reservations, and get suggestions about where to meet based on your location.
Comments and Reviews
Microsoft Exchange has been described as "the only reason why most businesses don't move to Mac" and the person who wrote that might have been right (before Windows 7 was released). Exchange is a fantastic tool for keeping all of your devices in sync as well as keeping your team in sync at the same time.
Microsoft has poured a ton of resources to keep Exchange competitive in a market where there are few other competitors and they've done a good job of keeping new features and compatibility rolling in as the years roll on.
The worst thing about Exchange is the need to either have a full-fledged Windows Server to run it on (several thousands of dollars if executed correctly as well as a few hundred per month to pay an IT guy to keep it patched and ready to go) or you have to commit to an online Exchange Hosting Service to reap the benefits. (The second option is usually the one that I recommend unless you have lots of money or a large team - Apptix does a good job of Hosted Exchange - shameless plug: http://www.apptix.com/default.asp?spid=2000001097 )
I would love to see a viable alternative with as many associated supporting professionals enter the marketplace but at this time Exchange is still the champion.
(For the record; I operate my own company using Google Hosted Apps and we love it!)
You may also want to try this free open source
hMail Server
Works pretty good.
Apple has made macOS fairly compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server within the past 5 or so years. From Active Directory integration for login, to mapped network drives for Sharepoint and the native Mail, Contacts and Calendar apps work well with the Exchange Server. Not to mention Microsoft Office for macOS has received some aggressive updates.