Microsoft: Office 365 IT admins get free device-wrangling controls

Microsoft has begun bundling basic mobile device management (MDM) capabilities with all commercial Office 365 subscriptions, as it said it would at last year's TechEd Europe conference. Beginning on Monday, companies with Office 365 Business, Enterprise, EDU, or Government subscriptions can manage Android, iOS, and Windows …

[P. Lee]

>"This includes the ability to restrict actions such as cut, copy, paste and save as to applications managed by Intune – helping keep corporate information even more secure,"

Now you too can re-live memories of DOS, where you have to save data, load up another app and import the data. This time, however, we don't want to show you the file-system.

If only there was a company which could produce a decent secure operating system which you could pay for and where data-snooping was discouraged by banning advertising-based revenue models on its devices and allowing shareable data types to provide filtered views of the data. So facebook doesn't get your contacts, facebook gets the contacts you provide it with.

Ah, if only we had a company which writes both an OS and applications! Where could MS find a company like that?

[TheVogon]

No wonder Blackberry's share price plummeted over 7% yesterday. Microsoft have completely stuck it to them with this - providing for "free" what is now Blackberry's core revenue model...

[b166er]

Maybe they should just go all in an merge Intune with Office 365.

If Windows 10 is 'free' for consumers anyway, just chuck a bit more on the price of Office 365 and give biz customers 10 with it.

[Anonymous Coward]

And if it's anything like the free MDM that is bundled with Google for the enterprise, it'll be worth exactly what you paid for it.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm surprised anyone still uses Google Apps bearing in mind the these days substantial gap between that and Office 365...