It's no secret that the proportion of information workers who are mobile or working outside of headquarters continues to grow. Whether they are working from home, going where opportunity leads, or just working in different locations, they need the ability to connect to data and collaborate with each other as seamlessly as possible. Office 365 is inherently capable of being accessed from anywhere with an Internet connection, whether from PCs, browsers, or mobile devices. You don't have to deploy special...

Audience: Small Businesses Being a small business is about thinking big and doing more with less. It’s about making yourself indispensable to your customers. And no business is small when it’s your business. No excuses—you’re on the front lines. You call the shots, take the risks, and reap the rewards. Office 365 is all about less risk and more reward. Do more, better, faster. Big businesses have people around to take care of all the little details. In your business, you take...

You probably know a lot of the amazing stuff you can do with Microsoft Office on your PC. But what if you don’t have your PC? Or what if you don’t have the right Office app on your PC? What if you’re on the conference floor, on the train, or even on vacation and you need to… Make a couple of changes to a proposal that’s due yesterday? Check your stock of an item in an Excel spreadsheet to answer a client’s question? Review a colleague’s sales presentation...

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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Well, it's been two weeks since the announcement of Office 365 and the response is more than we could have hoped for. Clearly, this is a solution that a lot of customers are excited about, and it's resonated across a lot of Microsoft Web properties. Here's a quick rundown of the resources around the web that will hopefully help you find the content that's most interesting to you. We have unveiled how Microsoft partners will benefit from selling Office 365 . And we've answered a lot of questions from...

With all the excitement around Office 365, we asked a few of our customers to share their thoughts and experiences thus far. You can read more guest posts like this one here . By Karen Kotzen, Owner, Love My Lessons, Hollywood, Florida In my business, I teach people how to make friends with their computers. My services include training in computer skills, such as email basics and Microsoft Office programs, creating blogs, setting up Facebook and Twitter pages, or whatever my clients need. Most of...

Today, we're pleased to announce Office 365 was granted the authorization to operate under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. FISMA is important to our customers because it creates a process for federal agencies to certify and accredit the security of their information management systems.  IT solutions with FISMA certification and accreditation have federal agency approval for their use in line with the level of security established by that agency.  

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Hi, I’m Ben Tamblyn, product manager for SharePoint Online. This is the first of a series of blog posts to show you what’s possible with SharePoint Online in Office 365. Over the next 4 weeks we’ll take you on a journey through the new SharePoint Online service we’re providing as part of Office 365. SharePoint is well known to many of our enterprise customers who have been getting great value from SharePoint for many years but with the launch of the public beta of Office 365...

Hi I'm Jose Gomez Cueto and I work in the Office 365 Product Marketing team. I am on site here at the Office 365 event in New York, and I’m excited to be bringing you a live look into today's events. Follow along here for more details from the morning and don’t forget tune in to watch Steve Ballmer take the stage at 10 a.m. ET. We are here at the Skylight Soto in downtown New York. The press is already beginning to arrive, talking with assorted Microsoft employees and actual beta customers...

We’ve been talking a lot about why Office 365 provides the best cloud productivity experience for customers of all sizes. Office 365 allows everyone to confidently work together regardless of their preferred platform, so it’s no surprise we’ve been receiving questions about what Office 365 can offer to Apple users. The quick answer is a lot! End users still get a phenomenal experience across the Mac, Safari or iPhone so they can easily work with co-workers on PC’s. The IT...