The Office 365 services offering gives your business the
powerful productivity capabilities of SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and
Lync Online, as well as Office Professional Plus and Office Web Apps—making it
easier for your people to quickly and cost effectively access up-to-date
collaboration, communication, and productivity services.
SharePoint Online provides a
single, integrated location in the cloud where your people can easily
collaborate with team members to share ideas and expertise, build custom team
and project sites and solutions, find organizational resources, or search for
information. People can also invite external users to view, share, and
collaborate on extranet site collections.
SharePoint Online Feature
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Benefits
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User Interface
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Complete tasks more quickly with contextual
and customizable menus from Microsoft Office Fluent™ user interface and
ribbon technology.
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More easily customize sites with Web Edit
features that help you quickly edit page text and media in the browser.
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Communities
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Share information on My Sites, a social hub
that features people and group profiles with relevant interests and
expertise.
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Tag multiple types of content, add “I like it”
bookmarks, and navigate and search by tags.
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Add personal and profession
information—including biographies, skills, and previous project experience—to
the My Profile page.
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Capture best practices and expertise using
blogs, wikis, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds, and surveys.
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Composites
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Use Sandboxed Solutions to more safely deploy
custom solutions into the SharePoint Online environment without involving the
SharePoint Online farm or server administrator.
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Enable SharePoint Online users to create,
edit, and save Microsoft Access databases in a web browser, allowing them to
publish and share Access databases on SharePoint.
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Render, share, view, update, and refresh
data-connected Microsoft Visio® web drawings in a web browser
using Visio Services.
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Create advanced, no-code solutions quickly
with the Workflow Designer and improved user interface and expanded
capabilities of SharePoint Designer 2010.
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Content
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Simultaneously share and work on documents
posted to SharePoint Online sites and document libraries using integration
with Office Web Apps.
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Easily discover content and access multiple
taxonomies and folksonomies from a central term store service using
metadata-driven navigation and embedded metadata fields in documents.
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Improve the processes of managing and tracking
information through the Unique Document ID service, which assigns unique
identifiers to content.
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Help users store, work on, and export multiple
files as a single entity by introducing document sets.
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Use retention and auditing policies to help
define document retention and expiration periods, provide access control and
security, and enable tracking.
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Insights
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Help people locate the information they need
by providing access to the information in databases and spreadsheets stored
with SharePoint Online with features such as Data Visualization and Visio
Services.
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Search
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Begin interactive web experiences in documents
without opening an Office client application with the View-in-Browser
feature.
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Support multiple types of searches, including
contextual search, phonetic search, and people and expertise search.
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Sites
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Receive out-of-the-box support for multilingual
experiences on SharePoint Online sites and configure fields within lists to
support multiple languages by using the Multilingual User Interface feature.*
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Synchronize the SharePoint Online calendar,
contacts, and tasks with Outlook 2010 and then view them offline.
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Invite external users to view, share, and
collaborate on extranet site collections.*
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Receive 100 site collections, each of which
supports multiple sites.
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Add 500 megabytes (MB) of storage for every
user.
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Mobile
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Capitalize on low-cost subscription plans for
Office 365 that benefit companies with workers who do not have dedicated PCs.
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Access SharePoint Online sites and documents on
mobile devices (including web-enabled mobile devices) using a simplified,
text-only format.
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Security
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Receive regularly scheduled security
assessments and continuous intrusion monitoring and detection of the service.
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Use Microsoft Forefront® Security
for SharePoint for virus filtering and protection from malicious data.
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Administration
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Configure and manage SharePoint Online via
centralized, web-based access.
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Items marked
with an asterisk (*) may or may not be offered at initial general availability.
Some may become available in subsequent service updates.
Exchange Online provides rich,
familiar, and more secure access to email, calendar, contacts, and tasks across
PCs, the web, and mobile devices. It delivers the robust capabilities of
Microsoft Exchange Server as a cloud-based service. In addition to delivering
powerful and familiar Exchange Server capabilities, Exchange Online greatly
simplifies IT management and provides advanced security and reliability
features that help you safeguard data.
Exchange Online Feature
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Benefits
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Access to
Exchange Online
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Access email from almost anywhere through a
web browser using Outlook Web App.
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Use Microsoft Office Outlook for a rich client
experience and offline access to your mailbox.
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Access email, calendar, contacts, and tasks
through Exchange ActiveSync® from a wide range of mobile devices,
including Microsoft Windows Mobile® and Windows Phone 7, Nokia E
and N series devices, Palm devices, Apple iPhone and iPad, and certain
Android phones.
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Email and
Contacts
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Enjoy 25 gigabytes (GB) of mailbox storage
space per user and send messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size.
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Automatically apply actions to messages as
they arrive using inbox rules.
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Avoid email mistakes with automated alerts
called MailTips.
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Set up restricted, moderated, and self-service
distribution groups to help users collaborate.
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Calendar
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Configure delegate access (that is, permitting
another user to manage your calendar).
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Enable individual calendar sharing through
iCalendar for anonymous access by other users.
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Enable federated calendar sharing with other
Exchange Online or Exchange Server 2010 organizations.
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Voicemail
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Take advantage of hosted Unified Messaging
services that provide call answering (voicemail), dial-in user interface
(Outlook Voice Access), and company automated attendant capabilities.
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Security
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Help protect your inbox from malicious
software and spam in incoming, outgoing, and internal messages with Microsoft
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange.
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Help prevent spoofing and provide
confidentiality for messages in transit with Transport Layer Security (TLS).
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Archiving and
Compliance
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Add disclaimers to messages in transit using
transport rules.
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Automatically archive old messages to a
personal email archive to reduce inbox clutter.
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Reduce the liabilities associated with email
by applying expiration policies.
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Use legal hold capabilities to immediately
preserve deleted and edited mailbox items from users’ primary mailboxes and
personal archives.
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Administration
Center
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Configure and administer Exchange Online
services through a web-based control panel.
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Use role-based access control (RBAC) to
delegate permissions to responsible users based on job function.
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Perform management tasks that are not
available in the web management interface by using Remote PowerShell™ to
connect to Exchange Online.
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International
Availability
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Available in Canada, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, United
Kingdom, and United States.
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Items marked with an asterisk (*) may or may not be offered
at initial general availability. Some may become available in subsequent
service updates.
Lync Online provides your people
with next-generation communications capabilities, including presence, IM, and
PC-to-PC audio and video calling. Lync Online provides enterprise-class
communications features that can improve the productivity of your people, drive
their business efficiencies, and build a more agile organization by providing a
powerful combination of presence awareness and IM.
Lync Online Feature
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Benefits
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Instant Messaging
(IM)
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Send an IM to anyone in your organization or
any federated organization you’re connected to.
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Lync 2010
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Available to service subscribers at no
additional charge.
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Works with a USB Headset to provide voice over
IP chats and meetings.
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Show Out of Office messages and other messages
from Exchange Online.
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Easily identify user presence using photos
next to contact information arranged in customized groups.
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Presence
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Instantly communicate with people from within
Outlook 2010.
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Use presence information in SharePoint Online
to easily send IMs and escalate conversations to a meeting to review a
document
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Use presence information in Outlook Web App to
know who is available to receive IMs rather than email.
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Tag status changes on colleagues so you
receive a notification when they sign-on.
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Meetings
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Easily invite others to spontaneous meetings
that use voice and video with the Meet Now capability.
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People who do not subscribe to Office 365 can
join meetings using the free Lync Web App.
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Record meetings on your workstation.
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Share Desktop
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Share your desktop with others using the
built-in Meetings capability of Lync.
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Review documents, instruct others, or
troubleshoot remote problems.
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Internet Access
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Connect to others in your organization or
federated connections over the Internet without first using a VPN to connect
to your company network.
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Distribution
Lists
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Add
email distribution lists to Contact Lists
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Control your messages by directing communications
to individuals in distribution list or broadcast to the entire distribution
list.
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Fully expand distribution lists with 100 or
fewer members.
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File Transfer
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Transfer files as part of an IM conversation
without using email through the peer-to-peer file transfer capability (not
supported on remote access connections).
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Interoperability
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Interoperability with on-premises Exchange
Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2007
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Use IM federation that allows Lync Online to
interoperate with Lync Server.
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Take advantage of PC-to-PC audio and video
calls (limited to two PCs within the same Lync Online organization or between
permitted federated domains).
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Instant Messaging
Federation
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Communicate with organizations using Lync Online
or on-premises Lync Server.
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Federate with trusted users from the Microsoft
Windows Live™ Messenger public IM network.
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Security
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Capitalize on enhanced URL filtering and file
filter control for URLs and files sent via IM.
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Automatically encrypt IM text for enhanced
security.
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Administration
Center
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Manage Lync Online services through centralized,
web-based access.
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With Office Professional Plus,
your people are equipped with powerful ways to do their best work from more
places—whether they’re using a PC, phone, or web browser. As part of Office
365, Office Professional Plus delivers the complete, familiar, and intuitive applications
you need to keep your business connected.
Office Professional Plus Feature
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Benefits
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Office 2010
Applications Included
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Microsoft Access 2010
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Microsoft InfoPath® 2010
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Microsoft Outlook 2010
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Microsoft Publisher 2010
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Microsoft Word 2010
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Microsoft Excel 2010
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Microsoft PowerPoint® 2010
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Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010
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Microsoft Lync 2010
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Office Web Apps
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Edit documents read or edit Office documents
in a web browser, and easily escalate into an Office editing session.
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Works with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and
Microsoft OneNote®.
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Built into SharePoint Online.
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Microsoft Office
Mobile 2010
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Enable coworkers in different locations to
share, edit, and comment on documents with a familiar Office experience best
suited to mobile devices.
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Co-Authoring
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Enable web-based collaboration, allowing
multiple people to edit Excel spreadsheets, build reports or documents in
Word, and annotate OneNote notebooks simultaneously.
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SharePoint Online
Services for Access, Excel, and InfoPath.
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Share an Access database and its associated
macros with users who do not have Access through SharePoint Online.
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Recalculate Excel spreadsheets directly in
SharePoint Online.
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Allow users who do not have InfoPath installed
to use InfoPath forms in the browser.
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Photo and Video Editing
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Use cutting-edge audio, video, and animation
capabilities in PowerPoint 2010 to embed, edit, and format audio and video
files.
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Broadcast Slide
Show
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Broadcast PowerPoint 2010 presentations live
with a remote audience, as long as the audience can access a web browser.
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Presence from
Lync Online
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See presence of team members and communicate
with them in the context of their work and the flow of their ideas.
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Easily initiate conversations directly from
within select Office 2010 applications.
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Email Management
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Easily manage large amounts of email with the improved
Conversation View in Outlook 2010.
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Perform multi-command tasks—such as moving an
email message to another folder and replying to it with a meeting
request—with a single click using the Quick Steps feature.
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Receive information on recipients through
MailTips so you can avoid mistakes before sending email messages.
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Text, Images,
Audio, and Video
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Capture content from a single place—from daily
sales reports to customer presentations—with OneNote 2010.
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Spend less time searching for information and
more time focusing on your goals with improvements to the Notebook Navigation
Bar, better text tagging, and quick grouping of similar items.
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Visualization and
Analysis Tools
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Turn complexity into clarity with new
visualization and analysis tools in Excel 2010.
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Easily display visual summaries of analyses
near values with new charts called Sparklines.
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Shared Content
between Applications
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Embed a PowerPoint slide directly in a Word
document.
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Add an Excel spreadsheet into a PowerPoint
presentation.
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Office Web Apps is the online
companion to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote applications that helps your
people access documents from almost anywhere. People can view, share, and work
on documents online with others across PCs, mobile devices, and the web.
Office Web Apps Feature
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Benefits
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Read and Edit
Office Documents in the Browser
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View and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
OneNote documents without using Microsoft Office.
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Escalate into
editing with Office
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Quickly transform the session from web based
to the rich client experience of Microsoft Office in a single click.
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Presence from
Lync Online
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See presence of team members and communicate
with them in the context of their work and the flow of their ideas.
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Easily initiate a conversation directly from
within select Office 2010 applications.
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Co-Authoring
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Enable web-based collaboration, allowing
multiple people to edit Excel spreadsheets, build reports or documents in
Word, and annotate OneNote notebooks in real time.
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Office Mobile
2010
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Enable coworkers in different locations to
share, edit, and comment on documents with a familiar Office experience best
suited to mobile devices.
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Broadcast Slide
Show
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Broadcast PowerPoint 2010 presentations live
with a remote audience, as long as the audience can access a web browser.
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Localization
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Available in all Office 2010 desktop suite
languages
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Improved
Performance and Appearance with Silverlight
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In the Word Web App, experience faster page
loads; improved text fidelity at full zoom; Microsoft ClearType tuner
settings support; and when using the Find on This Page feature, improved
accuracy in the location of search string instances.
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Using the PowerPoint Web App, experience
faster page loads, smoother animations, and presentation slides that scale
with the size of the browser window.
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With Office 365, you can take advantage of sophisticated
collaboration and messaging capabilities without the operational burden of
on-premises server software. Office 365 keeps you in control and provides
business-class reliability, high availability, comprehensive security,
simplified management, and familiar user interface so that you can confidently
choose it as your collaboration and communication solution.
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