Microsoft introduces Office 365

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Microsoft has its Office 365 service Tuesday ge lwa site. The service, with Google Docs competes and since april in b lwa ta turned, let business customers, both in their web browser, as with the Office client apps to work on Office documents.

Users can log from this week to sign up for an Office 365 subscription, Microsoft Tuesday announced. At this time, through the Dutch Office 365 website only have access to the beta version to be requested.

Office 365 costs for companies with up to 25 employees 5.25 euros per user per month. For large companies, there are different packages. The most limited subscription, e-mail, it costs 1,79 euro and the most expensive package costs 25,50 euro per user per month. The option of 22,75 euro is the only one that during the open beta, which in april started, was available. From this amount, the Office Professional Plus as part of the service.

Microsoft Office 365 is a subscription service that the desktop applications of Microsoft Office combined with Office Web Apps. In Office Web Apps is possible, for example, to real-time with other users on the same document to work. Office 365 also includes, among others, an e-mail account with 25GB of storage via Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and tools to build a website and maintain it. Using Microsoft Lync for example, users can chat with each other and online meetings. Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite disappears after Office 365 has been officially published.

With the advent of Office 365 disappears BPOS. Users of that service, that e-mail and other collaboration tools included, should at a given moment to switch to Office 365. The new Microsoft service must, among other things with Google Docs compete. Google focuses its business subscriptions to roughly the same audience as Microsoft with Office 365: small and medium-sized companies that don’t own ict-infrastructure in the air willing or able to keep.