Office 365 launch. 28 Jun 2011. Ballmer introducing it, plus a couple demos.
- Ballmer introducing Office 365
- Office + Cloud = Collaboration
- “Office meets the cloud”
- Office 365 being announced today
- Collaboration scenarios, target to small businesses
- Accessing Office 365 using mobile devices, e.g. Windows Phone 7
- Real-time collaboration–as one user updates, other user sees changes immediately
- Outlook in Office 365
- Online Meeting button – automatically sets up online meeting/conference
- Realtime collaboration in whiteboard
- Collaboration using SharePoint
- New SharePoint design surfaces, with Ribbon
- Service plans for Office 365 – monthly subscription, or connecting existing Office apps to Office 365 service
- Touting their SLA, but no numbers
- Example of company planning to host all their documents in Office365
- $100k/yr savings for sample company
- Touting – improve collaboration between offices
- “Global partner ecosystem” – partnering with various partners that already provide SLAs
- Partner can package Office365 with services that partners already provide to small businesses
- Our friend Steve
- “Bring benefits of Office to the cloud”