Microsoft Office 365 has flexible service plans to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes. With our subscription-based model your IT costs will be a predictable monthly expense and your software will always be up to date. Additionally, because it's an online service, Office 365 provides anywhere access to your email, important documents, contacts, and calendars.

Below, we've compiled a list of resources and tools to help you choose the best Office 365 plan for your business.

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By migrating its messaging and collaboration environment to Microsoft Office 365, Hickory Farms has provided its employees with familiar tools that they can use to collaborate easily and more effectively with their colleagues, inside and outside the company. It has also streamlined IT management, avoided some IT costs, and provided the flexibility the company needs to scale its seasonal operations up and down efficiently, and cost-effectively. The Hickory Farms IT department is also saving time by no longer having to remediate problems with email messages or document conversions, or reconcile two, separate messaging and collaboration environments.

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At Small Business Week - San Francisco we looked from our roots to the present and celebrated the 9.6 million small businesses in the U.S. Below is an overview of our time at the event including how we celebrated and some of the people we met.

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In our third and final post about the privacy tenets Microsoft Office 365 was built on - responsibility, transparency, and choice - we'll talk about how our customers have the opportunity to choose whether information will be collected, shared, or made public. There are three categories that fall under choice: administrative access, identity management, and Microsoft partners. Based on the Microsoft whitepaper "Privacy in the Public Cloud: The Office 365 Approach" below we provide more information about each one.

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Colonial Williamsburg decided to subscribe to Microsoft Office 365, a services offering that combines the familiar functionality of the Office desktop suite with cloud-based versions of next-generation communications and collaboration services. By using Office 365, the museum found it could do a better job of marketing to and providing services for customers, reducing costs by $27,000 annually.

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Emperor Group, a global conglomerate with several offices around the world, recently chose Microsoft Office 365 for the quality of its cloud communication and collaboration solutions.

The company spent a month rigorously evaluating Office 365 and Google Apps solutions for functionality, connectivity, and speed - and found the complete suite of applications in Office 365 met its stringent business and technology requirements.

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Microsoft Office 365 was built from the ground up with three privacy tenets at its core: responsibility, transparency, and choice. As part of our three part security and privacy series, today we'll take a close look at transparency and how we strive to make our practices easy to understand. At the heart of our transparency efforts is the Office 365 Trust Center which is designed to tell customers, in plain language, exactly how we handle and use data gathered through their use of our cloud-based service.

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Microsoft Office 365 is an online business service that was purposely built to optimize the flexibility, responsiveness, and efficiency of the cloud. It was also created with a strong emphasis on data protection and with Microsoft's three tenets of privacy - responsibility, transparency, and choice - at its core. This week we'll explore each principle as explained in the Microsoft whitepaper "Privacy in the Public Cloud: The Office 365 Approach" and on the Office 365 Trust Center , which provides...

Microsoft Office 365 provides small businesses with simple tools to create professional-looking websites. Powered by SharePoint Online, you can choose your own domain and use the provided tools and templates to build, publish and maintain your site. Gadgets, which are standalone applications that come with SharePoint Online, allow you to further enhance your website with everything from videos to a PayPal button.

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During the month of May we celebrate the almost 10 million small businesses in the United States with learning sessions, tweetups, giveaways, and other special events. Join us during National Small Business Weeks across the nation at these events:

• May 14 - 19: Microsoft Office 365 and Windows Intune, and Windows Phone will have certified Microsoft Partners at T-Mobile stores across the nation. Find your store here: http://msft.it/SBTour Attendees can register for a small business sweepstakes valued at $60,000 in prizes, learn more about how cloud solutions - Office 365 and Windows Intune with the Windows Phone - can help any small business be a better business!
• May 16: As part of the San Francisco Small Business Week events, Microsoft Director of Business Development Rodney Bowen-Wright will speak at a session entitled 'The Cloud: More than a technology Decision.' Register here. This session will be followed by a tweetup, register for this free event here.
• May 20 - 26: During the by National Small Business Week we're hosting the Accelerator Room: Touch down, Connect, Network and Relax. We will also host a tweetup on May 22^nd with a special guest from the Small Business Administration and Microsoft SMB at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Washington DC.

If you can't join us in person follow us online at  @Office365, @MSCloud, @TMobile, @WindowsPhone, @MicrosoftSMB and @SBAgov for all the latest or register for the webcast of the events. http://msft.it/SBLS.

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