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Hotmail (with SkyDrive and Messenger) gives totally free e mail and collaboration providers for 360 million men and women around the globe. Over thirty million of them have tried using out Office Internet Applications in just the primary 6 months they ended up obtainable. Microsoft also offers Exchange, SharePoint,
Office Ultimate 2007, and Lync for millions of businesses and other organizations. And with today’s launch of Workplace 365 beta, businesses of all sizes can now easily use these products as an integrated suite of email and collaboration providers, designed with the key management and administrative features they need.
In delivering these services, we’d like to provide a view of the differences between the communication tools that organizations want and what individuals are asking for. Office 365 is focused mainly on the needs of organizations. Hotmail,
Office 2010 Standard Product Key, SkyDrive, and Messenger are focused on individuals. The PowerPoint below shows how they are similar and work together – and yet are tailored for the unique needs of each.
We believe the important thing here is to listen to our customers and continue to evolve these services so that we’re delivering the right features for the right customers. Sometimes this means features from Hotmail will move into Workplace 365 and vice versa. By offering both Hotmail and Office 365,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010, we get the opportunity to share a lot of code between the services,
Office Ultimate 2007,
Halogen Employee Performance Management - HR Software of Choice!, and learn a great deal from each other. This helps ensure that we can give customers the best solution – with two services designed to make personal and work life easier to manage.
If you have a business or influence IT decisions in your organization, we encourage you to visit join the beta,
Office 2010 X64, and provide feedback on Office 365.
Dharmesh Mehta
Director, Windows Live Product Management