21apps is a Microsoft BizSpark Partner and a SharePoint business value, solutions and platform consultancy from the United Kingdom. In this guest blog, Ant Clay, Chief Strategy Officer of 21apps, shares his excitement around the launch of Office 365, specifically on how SharePoint Online and Office 365 should be at the heart of your company's business value agenda. -- "Microsoft Office 365 will be the Poster-Child platform for a new world of Hybrid Organisations." So what is this Hybrid Organisation...

The Internet can really level the playing field for professionals and small businesses. It can help you put your business and your brand out there. And it can give you new ways to work with your team and your customers. SharePoint Online in Office 365 makes it a snap to have a professional presence on the Web and use the Web to work together more efficiently—all with a familiar interface with no coding or IT management. Get a professional, up-to-date Web site—in minutes With Office 365...

By Clint Patterson, Director of Communications, Microsoft Office Division The reaction to Office 365 has been tremendous. In the last 36 hours, we've seen news stories from around the world and made hundreds of new friends on Facebook and Twitter. We've also had the opportunity to welcome some new friends to the cloud with Office 365 when Steve Ballmer and Michael Bloomberg announced a major new partnership to modernize New York city's IT with Microsoft cloud services. If we can make it there, we...

When you open a Microsoft Office application, you know what you're going to get. Whether you're working from a PC, a browser or a smartphone, the way the software functions is familiar and consistent. On the other hand, converting Office files into Google Apps is a gamble. Learn more about the file fidelity issues that occur when converting Office files into Google Apps via the web, a tablet, and a viewer.

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Audience: Office 365 for enterprise administrators Hi, this is Jon Orton, product manager for Exchange Online. One of the most common questions I'm asked is, "What are the feature differences between Exchange Server and Exchange Online?" Most businesses are running some version of Exchange Server today, so it's natural for them to wonder what Exchange Server features they would have to give up to get the benefits of cloud-based email. With Office 365, the high-level answer to this question is easy...

This is the first in series of posts about the value Office 365 provides to larger organizations. What do we mean by "larger"? Basically, if you employ (or will soon need to employ) IT staff to meet your security, reliability, and user productivity needs, we're talking to you. (We have a great story for small businesses too, which we'll cover in another series). In this post, we'll outline some of the key challenges that IT decision makers at larger organizations face, and how Office 365 and our...

Last week we announced Microsoft Office 365, our next generation cloud productivity service. The bulk of the excitement has been about what the service means for our customers big and small, but it's been fun seeing the buzz created by the new name (my favorite being the suggestions about what to do on February 29 th !). What's in a name? As you've likely read, Office 365 brings together Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online as well as Microsoft Office desktop software and Web apps. There...

We at Microsoft share an authentic passion for pushing the boundaries of what technology can do for productivity. We love creating new products and services that solve problems for our customers and let people and businesses dream bigger. That’s why we’re incredibly excited about Microsoft® Office 365. Office 365 brings together online versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products—Microsoft Exchange®, Microsoft SharePoint®, and Microsoft Lync®—with...

Audience: Small Business and Professionals As a professional or small business, what technology can you absolutely not live without? Most would probably say email and calendars. With the increasingly fast pace of business, having the latest messages and appointments at your fingertips is crucial to serving your customers, taking advantage of opportunities, and staying on top of your busy day. Productivity on your time With Office 365, you don’t have to download email in batches or cable your...

When we launched the Office Web Apps in 2010, they were companions to the Office desktop experience that enabled lightweight, on-the-go content creation and review. Since then we've made a number of investments in Office Web Apps to make it easier for people to work together, author documents and access Office content from virtually any device. As we think about how people communicate and collaborate today and how their needs will evolve in the future, we'd like to share our plans for some of the investments we are making in the Office Web Apps over the next year and beyond.

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