What is Office 365
Office 365 is a new brand and a new way to think about productivity in the cloud. It is the next step in the future of productivity, bringing together Office, SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync in an always up-to-date cloud service. With Office 365, customers get the best productivity solutions on the planet for a predictable monthly cost, and their employees don’t have to change the way they work because they can use familiar applications like Office that they already know and love.
In short, Office 365 is an opportunity to give customers the best of everything we know about productivity, all in a single cloud service.
Office 365 builds on Microsoft’s strong foundation with BPOS, OLSB and Live@edu, and it is much more than an upgrade. It’s a new approach to cloud applications altogether. It brings Office desktop software and Office Web Apps to our business cloud services for the first time. And, it introduces a variety of new packages designed to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes.
There are three main options with Office 365
Office 365 for small businesses includes Office Web Apps, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and an external Web site for $6 - $10 per user per month. It is designed specifically for smaller businesses and professionals who are looking for cloud-based productivity tools without the IT hassles.
For Exchange, SharePoint and Lync Online, customers pay $10 - $15 per user per month. Existing BPOS customers get new capabilities at the same price.
For full Office Professional Plus desktop software, Office Web Apps, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, 24/7 phone support, advanced administration controls, on-premises use rights and more, an enterprise will pay roughly $24 - $30 per user per month.
Office 365 brings the full power of Microsoft’s business productivity platform to organizations of all types and sizes
Features
Master your Inbox and calendar with Conversation View and other advanced management tools in Outlook Leverage the power of business and social networking right within Outlook with the Outlook Social Connector Collaborate with control and confidence with co-authoring Instantly share slideshows, across town or around the world with PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show
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Create presentations that are as brilliant to watch as they are easy to create with new video and photo editing tools in PowerPoint Quickly work with hundreds of millions of rows of data in Excel. Transform enormous quantities of data into meaningful information Work from virtually any place and any device with the Office Web Apps 1
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