Microsoft opens up Office 365 as public beta

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Microsoft has opened the tap on its cloud-based Office 365 and is now offering the service as a public beta for anyone to try out.

Available in 38 countries and in 17 languages, the new beta follows several months of limited testing among a couple thousand businesses that were able to kick the tires on the service. After the public beta, Office 365 will officially launch later this year.

Unveiled last October, Office 365 is Microsoft's attempt to offer businesses a cloud-based alternative to some of its traditional desktop and server products. The service combines Office Web Apps with hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint as well as Microsoft's Lync product, which provides the online communication and collaboration piece.

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April

2011

Office 2010 Service Pack 1 is Almost Here

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Summer is just around the corner, and as promised, we are on track for delivering Office 2010 SP1 and SharePoint 2010 SP1 in mid-summer 2011. During the coming weeks, you will see various teams updating their blogs with specific information about changes to appear in Service Pack 1. These posts should provide customers and administrators with great information about the upcoming release.

Keep an eye on this blog and the two blog families below for updates on Office 2010 SP1 and SharePoint 2010 SP1:

http://blogs.office.com (and related product team blogs)
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/

TechEd North America as a key venue where we will discuss SP1 at length, including the tentative release schedule. If you’re planning to attend, please be sure to stop into the session for details. We’ll also have more to share on this blog around that time as well.

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18

November

2010

Microsoft Lync Now Available

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Microsoft Lync Server 2010 provides complete presence, instant messaging, conferencing and enterprise voice capabilities through a single, easy-to-use interface. You can Architect your deployment for high availability using data center resiliency and survivable branch appliances. Administrators benefit from a single, consistent management infrastructure, new capabilities to increase availability, and interoperability with existing systems. Administrators also use a new PowerShell-based foundation for administration consistent with Exchange Server, Active Directory, and other Microsoft server products.

This Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Trial includes both editions of the server (Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition).
Note:

This trial software is intended for evaluation purposes only.
When the 180-day evaluation period expires, you can either remove the evaluation copy or replace it with an appropriately licensed version of the product.
There is no product support for this trial. You are welcome to share your trial experiences with others and to ask for advice byparticipating in the forums.
Please visit the Technical Library for all technical documentation and review the system requirements and release notes.

Supported Operating Systems:Windows Server 2008 R2;Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 is designed to operate only on x64 platforms.

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25

September

2010

Office Web Apps

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Extend your Office experience to the Web

Whether you’re in the office, at home, or on the road, Microsoft Office Web Apps help you get more things done virtually anywhere and anytime. These convenient online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote offer you an easy way to access, view, and edit documents directly from your Web browser.¹ or .

for information about product updates, how-to tips, videos, and more.

For personal use:

Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are available free.

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18

June

2010

Meet the People Behind Microsoft Office 2010

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Below are links to stories and videos about some of the Microsoft employees who helped create Office 2010. Find out why they focused on the features they did, what they learned along the way, and what it’s like to work on a product that will be used by millions of people.