Office 365 Is Mobile, But Not Mobile Enough

Back in October 2010, Kurt divisible, President, microsoft office division, and Chris Capossela, vise president, Microsoft Office division, announced Office 365, Microsoft's next-generation productivity service that was first available as a closed Beta. It brings together Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync in an always-up-to-date service and cloud today, Microsoft announced the public beta version of Microsoft Office 365 The public beta allows millions of people in several countries and several languages \u200b\u200b- a total of 38 markets and 17 languages \u200b\u200bin all - to try Office 365 for the first time. Microsoft today also introduced the Office 365 Market Place, which provides a simple way for customers to find programs and services when they want to extend and customise the Office 365 The Marketplace is now live with over 100 programs and 400 professional services, available from the established community of more than 16,000 Microsoft partners cloud - with new programs and services to be added over time.
The cloud is clearly where it's at when it comes to applications, data storage, and even productivity software.
And the following Microsoft three-screen strategy, Office 365 also available from the Windows phone - in this case through the phone's Office Hub Phone syncs with Windows on a SharePoint server, Office 365 documents available on each connected Windows 7 Phone device.
Google Apps has been on this game for a while, and now the traditional business software giant Microsoft is ready to come into the market.
But, even though it sounds like a great alternative to Google Docs, end users should remember that Microsoft Office 365 is not designed shape them, but for small and medium enterprises as well as for large companies.
Finally, Office 365, now came from the private beta, wander the old familiar Microsoft Office programs on the Internet.
It's not Microsoft's answer to Google's free consumer service.
The software juggernaut expects to utilize the legion of office workers who are already familiar with MS Office environment.
Cheers ~ Arne.
For example, users of Office 365 create, edit and share Web-based applications for Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
In addition, it is not necessary to have local versions of the software on their computers.
Moving the office of the cloud will make cooperation more effective, allowing multiple users to work on Excel spreadsheets from any location, at the same time.
You can also access files on multiple devices.
The solution gives admin rights to distribute and monitor the Office productivity software to businesses with 25 to 50 people (Small Business version). We had no trouble setting up access for our employees in our hands on time. Using virtual versions of Word, Excel and Outlook, we created, edited and shared documents easily. We liked to have tried-and-true Office menu options at our fingertips, such as a tool to select fonts, formatting, clipboard options, and using the spelling checker. The interface is easy though, compared with the full Office applications. Fancy tricks that Merge is not here. But the Web apps provide the ability to transfer documents to desktop software in a few mouse clicks. Just hit the Open button in Word or Excel, depending on what application you're in. The downside? This access comes at a price. According to Microsoft, the companies with between 1 to 25 employees (maximum 50) will pay $ 6 per person per month.
Sounds like a reasonable price to stacked up against Google's Google Docs service, which offers much of the same features, but for a flat fee of $ 50 per year, per employee. This comes at a much lower annual cost of $ 1,250 (25 users). Adding salt to the wound, companies must purchase a separate licence for Office on the desktop. What's more, by using a free Windows Live ID in Office Live, for free, has the same interface and productivity options as Office 365 The only difference, really, is the ability to cooperate, as well as providing and managing access to a group of users. Sure, Office 365 is the strong integration with other Office products like Outlook, Messenger and Windows 7 Phone mobile devices. This makes it possible for workers to organise meetings around convenient times, conference rooms, and easily keep track of where everyone is. The question is, will small businesses be willing to pay for it?.