Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service that is designed to help meet your organization's needs for robust security, reliability, and user productivity. After a beta test that began in October 2010, Microsoft launched
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2. Office 365 is the brand name Microsoft uses for a
group of subscriptions that provide productivity
software and related services. Microsoft is a well-
recognized brand in computer and peripherals and the
developer of well-known Windows operating system.
The Office 365 service consists of a number of
products and services. All of Office 365's components
can be managed and configured through an online
portal; users can be added manually, imported from
a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-
on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory
Federation Services. Some plans for Office 365 also
include access to the current versions of the Office
desktop applications for both Windows (Office 2016)
and OS X (Office for Mac 2016) for the period of the
subscription.
Microsoft® Office 365 provides web-enabled access to
email, important documents, contacts, and calendar on
almost any device—including PCs, Macintosh
computers, IPhones, Android phones, and BlackBerry
Smartphone. Office 365 is easy to try, simple to learn,
and straightforward to use. You don’t need to learn
new software, install complicated systems, or learn
new jargon.
3. What is Office 365?
Microsoft is the world’s largest technology company and is headquartered at
Redmond, Washington, USA. Office 365 is one of the nest software suites of
Microsoft Company which offers complete solution for businesses and home users.
This package provides productivity software and associated service to the
consumers. In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017, Office 365 revenue overtook
that of conventional license sales of Microsoft Office software for the first time.
This package comes with many outstanding and useful features. It allows users
access to Microsoft Office applications on Windows and Mac OS operating systems.
Also, it offers storage space online through cloud storage service from Microsoft
which is One Drive. In addition, the office 365 also grants 60 Skype minutes/month.
4. History of Office 365
Microsoft first announced Office 365 in October 2010; beginning with a private beta
with various organizations, leading into a public beta in April 2011, and reaching
general availability on June 28, 2011. With the release of Office 2013, an updated
version of the Office 365 platform was launched on February 27, 2013. In June
2016, Microsoft made Planner available for general release. It is considered to be a
competitor to Trello and to other agile team collaboration cloud services.
On July 8, 2013, Microsoft unveiled Power BI, a suite of business intelligence and
self-serve data mining tools for Office 365, to be released later in the year. Power BI
is primarily incorporated into Excel, allowing users to use the Power Query tool to
create spreadsheets and graphs using public and private data, and also
perform geovisualization with Bing Maps data using the Power Map tool (previously
available as a beta plug-in known as GeoFlow).
In April 2017, Microsoft announced that when Office 2016 loses mainstream support
on October 13, 2020, access to OneDrive for Business, and Office 365-hosted
servers for Skype for Business, will become unavailable to those who are not using
Office 365 ProPlus or Office perpetual in mainstream support.
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