The Office 365 contest: Tell us your story

How could Microsoft Office 365 help you?

Tell us your small-business story, and you could win a $50,000 business package and a "helping hand" from a Microsoft executive for a day. We're looking for stories about how Office 365 can help give your small business big business power.

Office 365 for Small Business features hosted email, including protection against spam and viruses. And Office 365 provides calendars, contacts, online meetings, and instant messaging.

Office 365 for Small Business also gives you all-the-time access, with online storage for your files, so you can find them, share them, and work on them from anywhere, even at the same time. And when you use the Office Web Apps, you can work even if you aren't at your regular computer. You can even quickly set up a website that your customers can reach.

Could this help your business?

You can read more about Office 365 at Office 365: The cloud, your way.

Give the beta a try. Visit our Office 365 Facebook page to get the contest details, meet the executives, and read some of the other stories. Then submit your own story: How will Office 365 improve your small business?

-- Joannie Stangeland