Welcome to the World of the Revamped Office 365; A Brand New Office in the Cloud

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Welcome to the World of the Revamped Office 365; A Brand New Office in the Cloud

MS Office is no longer confined to desktops. It extends online services and supports business servers. The latest version of Office 365 that was launched two years ago on a Cloud-based platform, now extends further services through the web besides the usual Word and Excel. The new version is highly business-oriented. It includes Office servers like the Exchange, Lync and Sharepoint and the services run on these like the Excel service, Project services and the Web Apps,

Washington: The single desktop user is not left out though, as Microsoft has launched Office 365 Personal, additionally where the package can be downloaded for one time. The Home Premium that comes for a cost includes Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, OneNote, Access and Publisher. This gives the user 20 GB extra storage on SkyDrive and 60 free Skype world calling minutes a month.

It is convenient now to download the documents your working on from one PC to another through the Office-on-demand app. This is possible through the revised Office.com where you have a link to your account on all Office applications. Even students and Teachers can buy Office 365 University that is tailored for their needs.

Office 365 offers a slew of services meant essentially for businesses. Office 365 Business Essentials allows the user to access online Office Apps only and not the Desktop applications with 1TB storage and 50 GB inbox with emails, calendar and contacts functionalities. Office 365 Business offers Word, Excel, Power Point, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher and Lync. It comes for a subscription license for each user to run them on five PCs at a time.

There are also Office Business Premium and Office Business Enterprise that combine the features of the earlier mentioned versions as well as all the features of Office 2013.

The Office Business features are meant for users who work on documents, share and store them. Using the Cloud storage platform and the various business functions, Microsoft has tweaked its Office 365 to suit the needs of roughly three tiers of businesses.