This infographic was just released by Microsoft during the Microsoft Exchange Conference.
Monday, September 24, 2012 |
Modern Office Communications Infographic
Thursday, September 20, 2012 |
QuiteCloudy Branding Update
It's been quite some time now and I think everyone probably knows QuiteCloudy.com so I've removed CloudNotes from the title of the blog and I've changed my Twitter handle as well.
On Twitter you can follow me at https://twitter.com/QuiteCloudy. I use Twitter as a news service and post cloud news items and blog articles from the industry there. There's a lot of news and many articles are published daily.
I've also updated the description for the blog to include Office 365. So much of what I do now is related to Office 365 it just made sense.
The changes are minor but I wanted to take a minute to let everyone know what's going on. Thanks for reading!
Scott
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 |
New Office 365 and Office 2013 Pricing
As of yesterday, we have exciting new news about Office 365! Microsoft released some official pricing finally and gave us more details both about Office 365 as well as Office 2013. The documentation released yesterday covers the "Office 365 Home Premium" and "Office 365 Small Business Premium" products.
Here are the highlights...
Office 365 Home Premium
We learn the Microsoft is pricing the suite per household an up to 5 devices per house are covered by your subscription. Here's what you get:
- The base suite of Microsoft Office applications including: Word, Excel PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher
- 20 GB of additional SkyDrive storage
- 60 minutes of Skype calling per month
Office 365 Small Business Premium
With the upgrade come access to business features designed for organizations with 1-10 employees. Included are:
- The base suite of Microsoft Office applications including: Word, Excel PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher
- Premium Microsoft Office applications Lync and InfoPath
- A full Exchange Online mailbox with 25 GB storage per user including all of the calendaring and collaboration features
- SharePoint intranet access with 10 GB base plus 500 MB per user pooled storage
- A SharePoint external website for use as a company website
- Premium Lync conferencing with audio, video and screen sharing
Feature Summary
Microsoft is still offering the traditional Office suite sold in single units. You will be able to buy the software from resellers and through traditional licensing channels as well.
A somewhat toned-down version of Office will be included in the new Microsoft Surface tablet with Windows RT although the more expensive tablets with full Windows 8 operating systems will require a full Office license.
Upgrades will be available for those who purchase current Office packages. They can download the new versions and get a year of free access to the appropriate upgrade version for their product.
No Enterprise Details
We still don't have all the details about the larger business plans. Expect for Microsoft to release bits and pieces as we get closer to the anticipated release dates early in 2013.
The original Microsoft press release can be found here.
Get More Info!
If you are interested in finding out more about the new version of Office 365 I'll be delivering a webinar on the subject next week. Get the details and sign up here.
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