Microsoft Office 365 is constantly evolving to cater to your evolving business needs. Take the example that a lot of Microsoft products have been integrated with Office 365 to increase productivity and enhance efficiency of your office—that’s just a fraction of all the updates made to Office 365 over the past few years.
If you are planning to switch to Office 365, we recommend you brush up on these 6 least known things:
Microsoft Will Be Releasing New Features For Office 365
Microsoft will constantly keep updating Office 365 to include plenty of features. For example, one feature in the pipeline is the Office Graph that is designed to analyze content, interactions and all activities on the social networking platform Yammer. On the other hand, another new application is Oslo, which works in collaboration with Office Graph to gather information about Office 365 from Lync, Exchange and other integrated applications.
Yammer Will Be A Part Of Office 365
A few years ago, Microsoft acquired Yammer; however, intended to keep the social networking company separate from the company’s core operations. However, considering the fact that integrating Yammer would allow IT administrators to substitute SharePoint Server with a complete social networking environment, it is a useful update.
More Plans In Store For Skype And Lync
Immediately after acquiring Skype, Microsoft established voice connectivity between Lync and Skype. According to the company, more voice and video features are in line to be established between Skype and Lync.
Many Services Will Be Renamed
For example, the cloud service storage offered by Microsoft, previously known as SkyDrive has been named OneDrive and the business version of the same service has been named OneDrive for Business.
While these name changes are following a court ruling occurring over a trademark dispute, it is good to know that Microsoft often changes the name of its services and same would be the case with any services affiliated with Office 365.
Office 365 Is The Company’s Fastest Growing Product
Microsoft Office 365 has been growing sharply over the past few years. In fact, the Office 365 has been witnessing constant growth in the past four years. It is not surprising to know 70% of manufacturers, 60% of financial companies and over 25% of Fortune 500 companies are using Microsoft Office 365.
Office 365 Is Quite Affordable
Contrary to what most business owners believe, Office 365 actually offers a number of different affordable packages. In fact, Microsoft partnered with GoDaddy to release a number of affordable packages for small and medium business owners. The cheapest package is available for $3.99 a month.
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