The new Office 365

Why should you care about the new Office 365? If the e-mail, document sharing and storage, instant messaging, Microsoft Office and more cloud based solutions doesn’t get you excited, then how about a fancy new interface to make it even easier to get around than it was before.

As Microsoft prepare for the release of the latest cloud upgrades for Office 365 for business tomorrow, people are eagerly awaiting Office 2013 which will roll out alongside upgrades. Office Professional Plus will now be 2013 instead of 2010, and people who already have the subscription will be updated and upgraded if they haven’t already.

New interfaces within the portal will arise as newer ways of getting around and offering its social prowess as people are able to update the social feed when an important document is uploaded. Getting to grips with the newer and more fluid interface will be a smooth learning curve, there are few differences and things that are different are easy enough to learn about. You can now preview documents before opening them in SkyDrive Pro and SharePoint, allowing you view the document in a window when you click on more options, this saves time as opening and closing documents that were labelled badly or incorrectly can be inefficient.

I cannot wait to move our customers to this newer version of Office 365, giving them a neater and more aesthetic experience, still with all the great functionality of previous software.

 

If you have any questions on the new Office 365, please give us a call.

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With the release of Service Pack 3 previously this month, Office for Mac can now partake in the Office 365 subscription offerings.

The subscriptions service are best suited for customers who use Office on an array of devices as it will allow any combination of Mac/PC installs using 5 re-usable licenses; although, if you do have only the one device there is a lot of value consisting of free version upgrades etc.

Please do note that the minimum requirement for Office 365 subscriptions on Mac is OS X 10.6; while lasting Office for Mac 2011 remains 10.5.8. This difference is due to some of the Office 365 services functionality that are included within the subscription offer.

I am aware some people will be wondering when the next version of Office for Mac will be available now that Office 2013 has launched; unfortunately Microsoft are not ready to make an announcement at this moment in time, but know they are working hard on the future of Office for Mac. The most current version of Office for Mac is 2011.

If you are interested in Office 365 and have any questions please get in touch.

Eitex leading the way with Cloud Computing

Eitex were invited to an exclusive Microsoft Event where top performing Microsoft partners were rewarded and recognised for their efforts.

 

The event held at The Paramount in London was a high profile event and Dean Spencer owner of Eitex got the rare chance to meet with the General Manager of Microsoft Cloud Services, amongst other key Microsoft personnel.

 

Dean Spencer (on right) with Brian Ridgeway, General Manager of Microsoft Cloud Services

 

 

“The insights into products and services which are not yet available are invaluable for my business and my customers. There are some exciting developments with Office 365 and CRM Online. Cloud services help get the economy moving as companies can invest in their IT infrastructure without capital outlay. We are proud to demonstrate that Yorkshire Business can compete and win in the global marketplace!” commented Dean