Office 365 is a rebranding of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) offering. Similar to BPOS, Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time and money and free up valuable resources. Office 365 is the introduction of new online services and capabilities, new user experiences, and new online platform capabilities related to the introduction of new underlying “2010” server software into Microsoft Online Services datacenters as well as other major new service and platform investments. The name may be new and includes new offerings, but you are subscribed to the same service – just significantly enhanced. It will just give you a lot more features and functionality once you make the transition.

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Office 365 offers familiar Microsoft Office desktop suite with online versions of the next-generation communications and collaboration services: Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Lync Online. Office 365 services are easy to administer and simple to use—with the robust security, reliability, and control you need to run your business.

If you are currently a BPOS customer, Microsoft will be going through a transition (upgrade) shortly after Office 365 is released. Office 365 will be available in 2011.

Betach will be contacting all our Microsoft Online Services customers once Microsoft has published information about the transition to Office 365.