shall be launching Office 365, its successor to BPOS,
Office Professional Plus 2007, Live@Edu and Office Reside Small Enterprise — later this year (I’m still hearing early June). On January 11, Microsoft shared new pricing and packaging details about one of the coming Workplace 365 SKUs: Workplace 365 for Education. 365 for Education is the follow-on to Live@Edu. (Live@Edu, Microsoft officials said today, currently has 15 million users worldwide.) year, Microsoft execs hinted that the education SKU for Office 365 would remain free for students,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key, but cost some unspecified amount for academics and administrators. According to a newly released fact sheet, here’s the deal. 365 for Education will include Exchange Online, as Live@Edu does now, but also will add SharePoint Online, Lync Online, Office Web Apps, support for My Sites (and other new team sites) and site search capabilities. (Microsoft officials said in 2009 they planned to add SharePoint Online support to Live@Edu,
Windows 7 32 Bit, but it is only materializing as of Workplace 365 for Education.) The SharePoint Online and Lync Online functionality might be free for students, and $10 per month per user for educators and staff. also is offering a package, consisting of all of the above mentioned hosted services, plus a copy of Workplace Professional Plus (its highest end Office SKU) to run on users’ PCs. For this version of Office 365 for Education that includes Professional Plus, Microsoft plans to charge $2 per month per student and $14 per user per month for educators and staff. officials said late last year that the company is planning to implement a Live@Edu service update,
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, starting in January 2011, which will include user-deployment improvements, enhancements to the Exchange Control Panel, updates to Outlook Web App (OWA), new capabilities for compliance, policy,
Windows 7 Home Basic Key, SPAM and anti-virus management. Apps for Education, the primary competitor to Live@Edu and the coming Workplace 365 for Education offering, is free (for both students and educators/administrators, with Google’s Postini e-mail archiving and security available for an add-on fee per user per month (except for K-12 school users, which can get Postini for free). Google’s offering does not include any PC software option/components. other BPOS/Office 365 news, Microsoft is planning to roll out its regular quarterly update for BPOS Standard starting this month. The update will include Blackberry Console enhancements, updates to the Live Meeting client add-in, and some PowerShell tweaks. In the U.S., Microsoft has a planned maintenance period scheduled over the weekend of January 15-16 and is telling BPOS customers they may experience temporary service outages for Exchange Online and SharePoint Online as a result of updates and patch application.