0647.iceberg_5F00_v3.png (300×437) Microsoft Office 365 Profiled at Gartner Conference - Cloud Computing. ORLANDO, Fla.
-Microsoft offered a glimpse of its cloud-based Office 365 during this week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2010 here, suggesting to the assembled IT pros that the platform will allow their organizations to stay up-to-date with the latest versions of Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. "With Office 365, we're delivering everything we know about productivity as a subscription service," John Betz, Microsoft's director of product management for Business Online Services, told an audience during a conference session Oct. 20.
"We're also updating the back ends of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online to the 2010 version. " Microsoft released Office 365 in limited beta launch Oct. 19. General availability is expected in 2011. Nicholas Kolakowski is a staff editor at eWEEK, covering Microsoft and other companies in the enterprise space, as well as evolving technology such as tablet PCs. Microsoft launches Web Office – Enough competition for Google Docs. When I first heard the news that Microsoft has launched a free version of its Office Web Apps, I immediately sat down to try it out and thought I would write this blog with this new product.
But wait! Free? When did Microsoft start offering free Office? Imagine my disappointment when I found that I couldn’t access it from here! This service is only available to Windows Live users in USA, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland for now. So, no firsthand experience, but from I have read, these web apps are stripped down versions of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft is ready to launch the newest addition to its products by launching Office 2010 next week. What do you think of this new development by Microsoft? Lync- Work from Anywhere. Use MySites to connect with others in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint Online - Collaboration in the Cloud - Office 365. ProductsTemplatesSupport My accountSign in Collaborate with Office Online Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive.
Share them with others and work together at the same time. Get started now, it's free! See all Office options Looking for your work or school sign in? See all Office options Looking for your work or school sign in? Change language AccessibilityPrivacy and CookiesLegalTrademarks© 2014 Microsoft. Office 365 - Online Services & Hosted Software in the Cloud. Microsoft Rolls Up Cloud Services Into Office 365, Takes Aim At Google Apps. Today at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft’s Office division is unveiling a new product: a suite of the company’s productivity services called Office 365.
Before now, Microsoft’s business-facing cloud services have been broken up in a few places: SharePoint, Lync Online, Exchange, and Office web apps. Office 365 looks to unify these. Microsoft SVP Chris Capossela says “This is everything we know about productivity brought to the cloud”. The messaging here seems to indicate that Microsoft is more directly targeting Google Apps, the suite of online products that have been increasingly encroaching on Microsoft’s enterprise market. In what may have been a jab at Google, Capossela says “We can differentiate from our competition, particularly those coming from the consumer space, by making sure our servers are far more reliable”.
Microsoft says that before now it could only traget around 15% of an enterprise’s budget, because it was only selling software.