{"id":14746,"date":"2012-11-20T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=14746"},"modified":"2012-11-20T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:49:02","slug":"microsofts-office-365-more-companion-than-replacement-for-ms-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/software\/windows-os\/microsofts-office-365-more-companion-than-replacement-for-ms-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s Office 365, More Companion Than Replacement For MS Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n This past August, Microsoft opened a new retail store in Boston<\/a> to go along with its one other store in Massachusetts, and several holiday stores have popped up in local malls. Microsoft built a small presentation space into its Boston store with a giant 80-inch touch screen monitor and has been hosting small events<\/a> open to the public. Yesterday, I attended a presentation on Office 365<\/a> geared towards small businesses. Then event piqued my interest because I’ve been looking at Office 365<\/a> and other services, mostly for hosting Microsoft Exchange<\/a>\u00a0for my company. I wasn’t disappointed with the amount of information given about Office 365, but it led me to think that Office 365 isn’t ready for prime time as a replacement for Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n My hope with Office 365 was to replace the need for Microsoft Office 2007\/2010 to be installed locally and to use Microsoft Office apps from the cloud, similar to Google Apps<\/a>. Why not move to Google Apps you ask? Because, like many other businesses, we’re heavily invested in being a Microsoft shop and rely on Microsoft SQL Server and Excel database connectivity features that aren’t available in Google Apps. But I’d like to get away from having Microsoft Office installed on my user’s machines so that we don’t have to update them and make it possible for users to work remotely without having to log in to their machine at work using Logmein<\/a>.<\/p>\n