Microsoft Office Moves to the Cloud

In a move to beat the competition and join the Cloud movement, Microsoft is moving its flagship applications, like Word and Excel, in the cloud for the first time. Microsoft has been watching its Office suite suffer attacks from Google Apps for years due to low cost and ease of access from anywhere

Although Office Web Apps have been around for a little less than a year, Microsoft's latest offering, dubbed Office 365 includes Office Web Apps, Sharepoint, Lync Server and Exchange Server.

Office 365  adds the Web versions of your favorite Office 2010 applications and the server side of the equation: Exchange Online for managing email and calendars, SharePoint Online for websites and collaboration, and Lync Online for real-time communications such as online meetings and video conferencing. In Office applications you can see which colleagues are present.  Our customers are seeing instant value in Office 365, as well.
I love hearing how Office 365 is helping small companies. Bea’s Insurance Agency, a small firm in East Palestine, Ohio, is using Office 365 for email, shared calendars, document workspaces, collaboration and instant messaging -- all for the same cost it used to spend on just email.