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Microsoft Office 365: Is there a plan and pricepoint that's right for you?

Summary: With Office 365, Microsoft is planning to offer a number of different plans at a variety of price points, hoping to entice enterprises, SMBs and academia to choose Microsoft over Google Apps and other competitors.

By Mary Jo Foley | March 25, 2011 -- 08:46 GMT (01:46 PDT)

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There are four different Plan E options, ranging in price from $120 per user per year, to $324 per user per year. These are known as E1, E2, E3, and E4. Both the E3 and E4 options include for each user a copy of Office Professional Plus -- Microsoft's highest-end Office 2010 SKU -- to be used on client PCs.

Topics: Collaboration, Microsoft, Software

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RE: Microsoft Office 365: Is there a plan and pricepoint that's right for you?

I think MS may have this one right especially from a 1 person business view.

wwoodman@...
25 March, 2011 11:19

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re: enterprise E

cardlock access /ie. microsoft corporate door access system OR what? And should customer have to set up a domain for their own users to allow them to manage users ?

DeeFritz
28 March, 2011 18:34

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RE: Microsoft Office 365: Is there a plan and pricepoint that's right for you?

What does P plan offer for $6 that Google Apps doesn't for free? I think that this could still be a hard sell for lots of people. In my case, I want to sync flawlessly email, calendar and contacts between Outlook for Mac, iPhone and iPad, and it is not working well with Google Apps, specially the calendar, so it might be interesting for me in particular.

rsucre
17 April, 2011 08:31

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