Microsoft as todaycut the ribbonon the official release of its cloud-based productivity suite,Office 365.
Aimed at businesses rather than individuals, the service comprises Exchange Online (for email and calendars), SharePoint Online (for online collaboration), Lync Online (for text, audio and video messaging and conferencing), plus browser-based versions of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint in addition to the traditional installed versions.
Priced between $2 and $27 per user per month, Microsoft is targeting enterprise customers, small businesses and the education market with Office 365. Microsoft is promising updates to the service every 90 days.
Microsoft’s clear rival here, of course, is Google. Office 365’s Digital Marketing Lead for Office365 just cheekilytweeted“Interesting…Serving up lots of site requests for Office365.com from certain IP range in Mtn. View,” suggesting that Google is keen to check out the official, out-of-beta version of the service. However, as our own Microsoft specialist Alex Wilhelm recentlynoted, Google Docs is still some way ahead of the cloud-based Office suite in terms of functionality.
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Story byMartin SFP Bryant
Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously(show all)Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletterPreSeed Nowand technology and media consultancyBig Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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