More than 100 million people in the United States now own a smartphone* and chances are you and your employees are among them. Growing with the popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices is cloud-based computing, which is a way that computer programs and services are delivered over the Internet to a device. Office 365 enhances the power of cloud and mobile computing by providing access to email and calendars, Office Web Apps , web conferencing and file sharing from nearly any device. The...

Next week, Office 365 will be a sponsor for Inc. Events, GrowCo Conference in New Orleans, LA. On Wednesday, March 7, 1:40 CST, we are excited to participate in a Twitter interview (on the @smallgiantsbuzz ; @office365 channels) with Bo Burlingham, author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, during the ‘Networking with Purpose’ session held by the Small Giants Community . We thought it would be a good opportunity to talk with Bo and get his take on how technology...

With a team of contributors located around the world, Wine & Spirits Magazine conducts a lot of business online. When employees started to use email for document management, collaboration became difficult and inefficient. Additionally, there were concerns that the content delivered to the printer might not be the final, edited articles. Seeing the many issues this way of working could create, the company began testing Microsoft Office 365.

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Whether your company has 10,000 employees or one, chances are collaboration is an essential part of doing business. Without the right infrastructure, basic activities like sharing documents and keeping track of task completion can become complex. Part 4 of our series shows how team sites, a feature of SharePoint Online, can help you work more efficiently with people in and outside of your organization. Watch and learn how you can manage documents, contacts and tasks from an internal website that's accessible on a mobile device or through a desktop computer. 

 

 

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Small business owners wear many hats. You're responsible for everything from driving the company's strategic vision to making sure the printer doesn't run out of paper. While you're on your own for many of the problems that come up in business, Office 365 comes with the power of an international community and a simple tool to help address your needs. Since Office 365 first went into beta trials, we've been collecting resources and tips and tricks to make finding answers to your questions easy. You...

Perhaps you've heard about the advantages of Microsoft Office 365, and want to give it a try. Or maybe you've already completed a 30-day trial and are ready to subscribe on an ongoing basis. The question is: Which plan should I subscribe to? To make your choice easy, we've updated our Office 365 website to help you quickly select the right plan for your organization. Now, from a single page, you can compare all the subscription plans side-by-side, including the specific features and prices of each...

Audience: Office 365 for enterprises administrators I'm Jon Orton, product manager on the Exchange team here at Microsoft. Welcome to our product insight series on Exchange Online. For our first post, I want to cover two things: an overview of Exchange Online and a look at some of the cool features coming to Exchange Online with Office 365. Quick Overview of Exchange Online You've probably heard of Exchange Server, and with Exchange Online, we've taken the capabilities of Exchange Server and offered...

By Clint Patterson, Director of Communications, Microsoft Office Division More great questions. More answers that we hope are great too. I saw several questions today on Office desktop apps, so the first five really focus on the options there, including some 'splaining around Microsoft Access. The rest cover ground from domains to voice. I also want to point folks to some great resources for Office 365. The Office 365 website is more than pretty pictures (but it has those too). It includes a detailed...

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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By Clint Patterson, Director of Communications, Microsoft Office Division This morning, Kurt DelBene and Chris Capossela, the president and vice president of the Microsoft Office Division respectively announced Of fice 365, opened the beta, and shared the stories of some of our amazing customers and partners. Because not everyone could be with us at the event in San Francisco, we invited media to ask questions via Twitter, and ask you did! We promised to answer them on our blog, and here they are...