Microsoft Office 365 meets all your small-business needs and allows you to connect from anywhere with web-enabled apps and tools. Through the subscription service, which starts at just U.S. $6 per user per month, users can securely access email, documents, contacts, and calendars on almost any device.
- Optimize your office tools: Use Microsoft Office Web Apps to view, edit, and share documents from virtually anywhere.
- Attend meetings online: Meet with co-workers online through video, call, or instant message with Microsoft Lync.
- Have more time for your business: With cloud-based services, IT departments and businesses can focus on growth and productivity rather than system maintenance.
- Communicate and collaborate on the web: Use tools powered by Microsoft SharePoint to design and manage a website, access your data with Access Services, and safely share large files online.
- Protect your data: Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange includes multiple filters and virus-scanning engines.
- Email easily and efficiently: Office 365 gives you a 25-GB mailbox and the capability of sending messages up to 25 MB.
- Work without slowing down: Count on Office 365 for reliable performance and availability thanks to guaranteed 99.9% uptime.
- Not sure which plan is right for you? Get a custom recommendation based on your company size and business needs.
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To get the full Office 365 experience, we recommend that customers meet our system prerequisites. Minimum requirements for Office 365 include Office 2007+, IE 7+, Windows XP SP3+ (see full requirement list below).
- Operating system requirements
- Windows XP SP3
- Windows Vista SP2
- Windows 7
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008
- Office client requirements
- Office 2007 SP2 or Office 2010
- Office 2008 for Mac & Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition
- Office 2011 for Mac and Outlook 2011 for Mac
- .NET 2.0 or later
- Lync 2010
- Browser requirements—Administration Center and My Company Portal
- Internet Explorer 8 or above
- Firefox 3 or above
- Safari 4 or above
- Chrome 3 or above
- Browser requirements—Outlook Web App
- Internet Explorer 7 or above
- Firefox 3 or above
- Safari 3 or above on Macintosh OS X 10.5
- Chrome 3 or above
- Outlook Web App also has a light version that supports a reduced set of features across almost any browser
- Active Directory
- In order to use the optional directory sync and identity federation capabilities, your business's Active Directory must be a single forest.
- Note for Mac users: At this time Communicator for Mac 2011 will not work with Office 365. See FAQ for additional information about Mac-related system requirements.