The Usefulness and Frustration of Having a Microsoft Office 365 Beta

At times, to me, the Microsoft Office 365 sounds like an addon app for the Xbox 360. I don’t know why, but I guess that’s the way it strikes me. Maybe I’ve been attached to the console for a long time. Anyways, talking about the Office Suite, it is a business focused – cloud based application that was released by the popular software company, as a Beta version.

Microsoft released the Office 365 Suite as per two main intentions:

• To take part in the Cloud Based applications race
• To give small and large businesses the kind of benefits that they’ve been looking for

In its current shape, the Microsoft Office 365 has a lot of rough edges and I feel that it can use a little bit of revision. Let’s take a look at some of the edgy and smooth aspects of this application.

• Pricing:

The price factor is tiered because Microsoft has always been like this with most of its applications. 25 people can use this suite and agree to pay $6 to the company. But this meager payment will not include the benefits of Microsoft Office, which is a hitch for a lot of Office owners.

Large enterprise customers have the facility of availing a wide range of pricing. BPOS customers can pay $10 per month and get away with some really cool perks and benefits.

• Exchange and Outlook in the cloud:

I use Google Chrome and if there’s one thing that I’ve learned, its Microsoft Office 365’s lack of support for the said browser. When you’ll log into the suite for the first time, it’ll only support Internet Explorer (obviously) and Firefox, but not the Chrome browser.

• Going mobile:

The Microsoft Office 365 works like a charm during the setup phases. Setting up this software through Windows OS is quite easy because all you’ve to do is enter the user name and password. The rest of the stuff is taken care of automatically.

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