Suggested solutionĪll 5 require an email mailbox and Instant Messaging capability. Video calling might be useful too, but not essential and certainly not worth paying extra for. Last and not least, their salesman is often out on the road and setting email frustrations aside, would like to be able to communicate via chat to the office. The other PC’s being newer have differing but legitimate versions of Microsoft Office but are relatively up to date.

The MD’s laptop was her old home laptop, and while she did upgrade to Windows 10 when the free update was available, it is running a very old version of Microsoft Office Word, excel, etc which was “acquired” at some point from a well-meaning friend. Additionally, they can’t share calendars, set out of office messages from Outlook and all the email files are stored on their PC’s meaning that in the event of a crash they could lose email history. It is a constant source of frustration as sent items on the mobile don’t appear in Outlook and vide versa. They currently use email provided free with their website, which is okay but being an older system doesn’t give them true email synchronisation between their mobile phones and desktop PCs. Hall Fabrications (see what I have done there?) are a small engineering company which started 5 years ago. I typically find it useful to start with a couple of scenarios in the small business space Scenario 1: Small Business of 5 people Confused? No idea on how to start pricing this up? I guess that is why you are here.

Some products can be purchased individually and some only as “bundles” of these same products depending on whether you are a home user, small business, enterprise or educational user. It is in fact an extensive collection of products anything from a simple email box to a complete cloud-based ecosystem with software such as Word, Outlook, Excel included.

So, lets start with what Microsoft Office 365 isn’t …. Many queries end up here due to confusion surrounding this question. Updated May 2020 to reflect Microsoft branding changes. What is Microsoft Office 365 and how much will it cost?

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