Helping You Get Started

AppId is over the quota

Perhaps you've heard about the advantages of Microsoft Office 365, and want to give it a try. Or maybe you've already completed a 30-day trial and are ready to subscribe on an ongoing basis.  The question is: which plan should I subscribe to?

To make your choice easy, we've updated our Office 365 website to help you quickly select the right plan for your organization.  Now, from a single page, you can compare all the subscription plans side-by-side, including the specific features and prices of each. You can see which plans come with a free, 30-day trial and find organization suited for your the plan best's specific size and needs.

To make our subscription plans easy to navigate, we've also grouped them into four categories: email, small business, midsize businesses and enterprises E1 & E3:

Email (online Exchange): This plan is suitable for organizations of any size that want to move their email, but not their productivity applications, to the cloud. Subscribers receive our web-based email service Exchange online, along with shared calendars, anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, and Active Directory integration. Cost: $5 per user/month. Small Business (P1): This plan is ideal for organizations with 50 or fewer employees. In addition to web-based email complete with anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, it offers instant messaging, voice and video conferencing, and web-based viewing and editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files. It also includes a team site for sharing files, an external website, and Microsoft community support. Cost: $6 per user/month.Midsize businesses & enterprises (E1): The basic plan is appropriate for medium and large enterprises that want to move email, communications, and collaboration to the cloud, while keeping their productivity applications on-premises. It offers web-based email, shared calendars, instant messaging and video conferencing. Plus it includes a SharePoint intranet supporting up to 300 sub sites, Active Directory integration, configurable anti-spam filtering and 24 x 7 customer support. Cost: $10 per user/month.Midsize businesses & enterprises (E3): The premier plan is suitable for medium and large enterprises that are taking a hybrid approach to the cloud and want to combine their cloud-based and on-premises versions of Office into a single plan. It includes everything in the basic plan plus web-based viewing and editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files. It also comes with a desktop version subscription of Office Professional plus 2010 for up to five devices per user. And it offers unlimited email storing and archiving, and hosted voicemail support. Cost: $24 per user/month.

You can subscribe to a plan right from our website, or sign up a for a 30-day free trial. You can also watch demos of Office 365, and view answers to frequently asked questions. Please check it outand tell US what you think. We welcome your questions and comments.

View the original article here