The University of Arizona (UA) today announced it has selected the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite to provide 18,000 faculty and staff members with next-generation communications tools to greatly enhance collaboration on the campus, laying the groundwork for a new cloud-computing approach to higher education IT investment. The Microsoft Corp. online solution is an enterprise-class set of communication and collaboration software delivered as a service, organization-wide. In addition to updating the university’s numerous and antiquated e-mail and calendaring programs to one centralized system, employees will get 10 GB mailboxes and new features such as instant messaging, presence and online meetings with the ability to share their desktop, audio or video with other users on or off campus...