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Office 365 Home Premium Preview

Experience Office when and where you need it

Welcome to the next generation of Office, a powerful service that keeps you connected whether you’re at home or on the go. Simply sign into Office 365 Home Premium (non-commercial use only) to open your applications, documents, and custom settings on any PC (PC running Windows 7 or 8 and Internet connection required). Combine Office with Windows 8 for the best experience yet, with even more ways to work the way you want.

Best for families who want Office on up to 5 household PCs or tablets

Sign in to your Office account for full access to services, including:

• A personalized Office experience on up to 5 PCs or tablets.
• Powerful new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, and Access.
• Streaming full versions of Office applications with Office on Demand (PC running Windows 7 or 8 and Internet connection required).
• If you’re also trying Windows 8 Release Preview, be sure to check out the OneNote Preview in the Windows Store. Keep your notes, pictures, voice memos, and web pages in one easy to access place so you have them when you need them.
• Coming soon, with the full release of Office 365 Home Premium:
• Talk to anyone using Skype, including 60 minutes of free international calls every month to landlines in over 40 countries and to cell phones in 7 countries. (Skype account required. Excludes special, premium and non-geographic numbers.)
• Get an additional 20 GB of SkyDrive online storage for easy access and sharing of your documents.
• Office for Mac

Top 10 reasons to try Office 365 Home Premium Preview

1. Office roams with you

Sign into your account and your applications, recent documents and settings are right there, just the way you left them.

2. Getting started is even easier

The new Start experience helps you start documents more quickly with compelling new templates as well as a list of your recently viewed documents.

3. Create beautiful documents

With new wide-screen templates and theme variants in PowerPoint, and the ability to edit PDF content in Word and add online video, it’s easy to bring documents to life.

4. Get better insights from your data

Excel’s new Quick Analysis Lens, Recommended Charts, and Chart Animations make it easy to see the meaning in the numbers.

5. Anywhere access to your documents

With your documents saved in the cloud on SkyDrive, a home budget or to-do list is easy to access and share on the fly.

6. Work together more easily

Simplify group projects and assignments with easy access to shared documents, comments, and recent changes.

7. Office when you need it

When you’re away from your computer, stream a full-featured version of Office on any Internet-connected PC with Office on Demand (PC running Windows 7 or 8 required).

8. Add media to inspire interaction

Simply drag and drop pictures, videos, links, and more media to make school and personal projects more compelling.

9. Store notes and information in one place

Capture and organize a wide variety of information in OneNote—notes, pictures, webpages, voice memos, and other media.

10. Experience Office at its best on Windows devices

Capture your ideas however you work best—using a keyboard, pen, or a touchscreen (Windows 7 or 8 required).

Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview

Power your business with the latest Office tools and services

Welcome to the next generation of Office 365, a powerful service that transforms the way you get things done. Office 365 is the smart choice for managing your business efficiently and professionally—without the need for technical expertise.

Top 10 reasons to try Office 365 Small Business Premium

1. Office is better than ever

With the newest versions of trusted Office applications, you can create compelling documents, gain better insights into your data, and deliver persuasive presentations with confidence.

2. Office roams with you

Sign in to your account and your applications, documents, and settings are right there, just the way you left them (PC running Windows 7 or 8 and Internet connection required).

3. Use smarter professional email

Focus on the most important messages in your inbox and enjoy a full array of email, scheduling, and task-list tools in Outlook. When you’re away from your desk, Outlook Web App gives you touch-enabled access to your email, calendar, and contacts.

4. Build a business website with ease

Easily create a public website using modern templates and customize it to fit your business. Add sharing buttons to reach new customers on Facebook and other social networks.

5. Meet in high definition

Make online meetings with customers and partners more effective, thanks to high definition video conferencing, screen sharing, and real-time note taking.

6. Connect with customers and partners

Invite people outside your business to work with you on documents, share your calendar, and communicate in real-time across a variety of instant messaging services.

7. Work together as a team

In a few clicks, set up a team site that lets you and your co-workers work on documents together, so you can comment and make changes to the same document at the same time.

8. Store personal documents in the cloud

Store your files in a private online storage area to keep the files safe even if your PC fails. The files are kept in sync with a folder on your PC so you can access your documents even when you are offline.

9. Put people at the center

Information about your personal contacts, shared business contacts, and social networks is gathered into one view, so wherever you see a person’s name in Office 365, you can easily interact with them.

10. No IT expertise required

A new web-based portal makes it easier than ever to set up, manage, and safeguard Office 365.

Office 365 ProPlus Preview

It’s your Office, delivered fast to your Windows PCs

Experience productivity on demand with your new, personalized Office 365 ProPlus. Office applications, with all of your settings, are nearly instantly streamed to your PCs. Office 365 ProPlus includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, and Lync.

Get enterprise-grade security, side-by-side support for previous versions of Office, streamlined update experiences, and IT controls that let you manage Office on your terms and with your tools and processes.

Top 10 reasons to try Office 365 ProPlus Preview

1. Deploy more easily than ever

This version of Office was built from the ground up to be the easiest version ever to deploy. It’s designed so your current add-ins and customizations just work. Powerful new Office telemetry tools inspect file and application compatibility, and optimized provisioning allows IT to quickly deploy broadly without uninstalling existing Office applications.

2. Enjoy the power of the cloud—on your terms

Use existing IT tools and processes for delivering software, no need to change your management infrastructure before installing. Automation and Group Policy management tools give you full control over how Office is installed and configured.

3. Get personal productivity on demand

Stream Office applications to your PC, so you’re up and running nearly instantly. Run this version of Office alongside earlier versions, no extra work involved.

4. Monitor performance centrally

New Office telemetry tools give IT more power to monitor the health and performance of Office across your organization and support you while you migrate from earlier versions of Office. Proactive controls help ensure that Office performs at peak levels to keep users productive.

5. Keep data more secure

Enhanced security and multifactor authentication protects your files, devices, and users, letting your users easily access the information they need while meeting security and compliance requirements. New tools for Excel scan spreadsheets and perform diagnostics for errors, hidden information, and broken links, and they can help prevent fraud by searching workbooks for inconsistencies.

6. Get started more quickly and easily

An improved Start experience helps you begin creating documents and presentations more quickly. Easily access templates and your recently viewed documents and folders

7. Build a social network

Combined, SharePoint, Lync, and Exchange create powerful social networks for your organization. Stay connected to the people you work with and communicate with important contacts via voice and video.

8. Discover and share insights from your data

            

Excel gives you intuitive and new ways to explore your data, inspiring new insight. With one click, visualize and analyze data in greater depth than ever  before. Combine Excel with SQL Server to centrally analyze and quickly generate insights into large data stores.             

9.Create and share beautiful documents

Create visually striking documents and presentations with Word and PowerPoint on your own or with others. Stay on top of the latest changes to a shared document and the conversations in the document. Use the new online sharing feature in PowerPoint to share with your audience even if they don’t have PowerPoint.

10. Add the power of the web and media to documents

Integrate rich web or intranet content directly into your documents and bring your files and data to life with real-time views into dynamic content. Stay up to the minute with reporting systems, integrate directly with map services, or see what your customers are saying without having to update your files.

Office 365 Enterprise Preview

The efficiency you want, the controls you need

Create professional content more easily than ever, securely connect with customers and partners, and take advantage of powerful tools for more effective management, control and compliance with enterprise-grade security, data loss prevention, and rights management.

Top 10 reasons to try Office 365 Enterprise Preview

1. Have Office when you need it

When you’re away from your PC, stream a full-featured version of Office on any Internet-connected PC (Windows 7 or later required) with Office on Demand.

2. Work together with Site Mailboxes

Store documents from your PC and project-related email in a Site Mailbox so that your team can access the content no matter where you are. The Site Mailbox syncs with SharePoint, ensuring content is up-to-date.

3. Protect sensitive data

Keep your organization safe with data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities that prevent users from mistakenly sending sensitive information to unauthorized people. The DLP features in Exchange identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data through deep content analysis and provide built-in and extensible DLP policies that are based on regulatory standards such as PII, HIPAA, and PCI.

4. Stay compliant with archiving

The ability to retain and discover data across your organization is essential to ensuring internal and regulatory compliance. Compliance officers can use the new eDiscovery Center to identify, hold, and analyze your organization’s data from Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. The data always remains in place so you don’t need to manage a separate data store.

5. Keep people connected

You can follow documents, sites, and people to track what others are working on. SharePoint even recommends people or documents to follow. With ratings and reputation tools, you can acknowledge co-workers and inspire them to work better.

6. Gain business insights


Combine large volumes of data from various sources with PowerPivot in Excel and explore data, visualize, and tell a compelling story with PowerView. Make better decisions with teammates by sharing Business Intelligence-enriched reports and dashboards on SharePoint.             

7. Work across time zones and geographies

Discuss and meet, coauthor documents, find experts, and chat in real-time with improved capabilities that keep everyone connected no matter where they are. Detailed contact cards and presence are integrated across all Office applications, making it easier than ever to connect.

8. Collaborate more securely

New capabilities and data governance/protection policy features in SharePoint let you work confidently with partners and customers. Use Lync to connect with others, while getting the authentication, encryption, and media controls your enterprise needs.

9. Get more out of your meetings

The new Lync Digital Meetings tools let you interact with people through video, audio, and instant messaging, and to share content while meeting. Join a Lync meeting from an HTML5-based browser using the Lync Web App, and enjoy HD video, voice over IP, instant messaging, and sharing of desktops, applications, and PowerPoint presentations.

10. Manage and control your business more easily

Office 365 continues to improve the ease of management from a web-based portal, provides powerful scripting access via PowerShell, and continues to invest in the infrastructure with data backup, disaster recovery, and globally redundant data centers. In addition, the new service health dashboard provides customizable reports that help you get insights into your service.