Microsoft Launches Office365 Cloud Offering beta April 30, 2011
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Microsoft recently made their new “Office 365″ cloud bundle available to public beta testers. At first glance, this looks like an attractive, web-based bundle of core applications including their latest version of the Exchange email server. Exchange 2010 is much improved, both from a performance and feature standpoint.
Office 365 will be subscription based, with the price beginning at $6 per user/month depending on services selected. The offering is designed around Office 2010 Professional Plus, and depending on the plan selected may include locally-installed version rights to Office 2010 Professional Plus, or only web-based access via a browser. All of the server functionality is on the Internet in Microsoft’s data centers – there is no hardware required (other than the PC’s needed to access the services).
The full edition of Office 365 includes the following:
- Exchange Online
- Forefront email security
- SharePoint Online
- Lync Online (online meetings, video calls, instant messaging)
- Office Web Apps (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote