Microsoft Office 365, the successor of Microsoft’s BPOS allows you to access your emails, calendars and contacts from anywhere. The Beta release is suitable for small businesses to access Microsoft collaborative tools at a reasonable price, $6 (USD) per user per month. This pack includes various Microsoft applications like, Word, Excel, and Outlook etc. to be accessible from different browsers and mobile devices.
Office 365 provides each user with a 25-GB mailbox size with maximum mail size up to 25-MB. 99.9% uptime is guaranteed by the Microsoft.
Microsoft Office 365 (Plan P1) Beta limits 25 users per account only at this stage with below next-generation and collaboration services:-
· Email & Calendar
· Office Web apps
· Websites and Collaboration
· IM & Online Meetings
Microsoft Office 365 (Plan P3) Beta is also available for Enterprise for any size organization. See the below table for a comparison of BPOS and Office 365.
|
Service |
BPOS |
Office 365 |
|
Exchange Online |
X |
X |
|
SharePoint Online |
X |
X |
|
Office Live Meeting |
X |
Replaced by Lync Online |
|
Lync Online |
|
X |
|
Office Professional Plus |
|
X |
For more details, click here to visit the Microsoft site.
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