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Microsoft Office 365
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Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 will be sometime next year. It is a step in Microsoft’s larger plan to get Office in the cloud.
Microsoft is already at the stage of testing with small businesses, and has a waiting list of about sixty thousand companies. Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to refine its product, while the test group are expanding, both in number and size of companies.
Office 365 is platform independent, so you can both Mac and PC enough to work.
The good news is that in the short test period, Microsoft has all worked as promised. The bad news is that you can not wait to get started. And it is also not far from office, with all its features, which you need to install anything.
What is it and what is not?
The first thing in advance though, is that this is not Google Apps. Not a service that has not even been launched to crack. We point out only that the department takes a number of key tasks in Office and the Internet makes available to companies.
For consumers there is still office and collaboration software with Windows Live Services, and Office Web Apps Docs.com. But Office 365 is a very different animal.
That means the end user gets things like a hosted version of Outlook, Sharepoint (in Office 365 ‘Team Site’ hot) and Lync, the latest version of Office Communicator. All without the need to buy your own servers without worry that you have to provide up-to-date.
Microsoft offers it as a subscription service that somewhere between 2 and 24 euros per month, depending on the size of the company and the services required.
Office Web Apps
Conspicuously absent in the interface 365 is Microsoft’s Office suite, Office Web Apps, who are the most comparable to Google Docs. Office Web Apps will be on the main stage if you use the hosted version of SharePoint, which you can view documents in Office Web Apps.
If you really want to create a document, you still need the Office software, or to the website of Office Web Apps go yourself. From there you can save on Sharepoint.
Documents or presentations, people in small businesses to the site of Office Web Apps. Those of a more expensive version of Office 365 signs can also subscribe to Microsoft Office 2010 with locally installed software take. Which connects with over 365 Team Site Office and Outlook with a specific menu in Office.
Not quite right
The result is that Office 365 do not really work as a coherent set of Microsoft online services where you are from one component to another can jump.
You are also very dependent on the software you need to install it. That will change, but it makes sure that a workflow with document creation and sharing a hybrid experience, while allowing you to juggle different products.
It will be cloudy
The core of the user shares the hosted services in three sections: Home, Outlook and Team Site. The links between the components remain the same regardless of what you’re doing. Unless you click Team Site, you will be redirected to your Sharepoint Site.
One of the clearest advantages of the hosted version of Exchange is the ability for a company to move all mail to the locally installed mail servers. Or you can simply coexist together.
Outlook for the Web application would not be so hard may differ from what people know. Users get all the usual bells and whistles, such as mail, calendar and contacts.
Outlook for the Web application would not be much different from what people should know. Users get all the usual bells and whistles, such as mail, calendar and contacts.
It is something that users install and run locally. A freestanding piece of software in the future will be built in Office.
The translation of Lync to a web environment means users get a slightly weaker version of the browser, without installing any software. It has a presence status display, also the home screen 365 and Office Outlook Web App’s.
Team Site
The third part of the Team Site Office 365, which is pretty much similar to Sharepoint. It has the same features and workflow. It is also one of the things that make Office 365 shows his strength as a group of documents can quickly view, read and edit in one place.
This is a cohesive web experience as it should. But it is still an island, instead of a proper integration with the home Office and the Outlook Client 365.
Not quite cloudy
Although very impressive, there are still questions about Microsoft’s vision for Office 365. Is it really a launching pad to Micosoftsoftware use, or is it a more complete solution, wherever you are, things can be finished with the computer?
Another problem (probably less important in ubiquitous broadband) is still a 365, Office internet connection. Microsoft’s trump card is that assessing the software installed locally pretty for each other, unlike Google.
The only problem is the transition between the two. And utility receives a blow to software users who want to be free and still want to remain mobile.
As the platform will continue to grow, these problems are solved. In the meantime it’s worth a look to Office 365. Microsoft is indeed working on a difficult feat: a very complicated software to push into the cloud.
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