Worldwide Partner Conference News: growth of Office 365

First of all would like to thank our partners for the energy and momentum are you traveling with Office 365. FY13 Q3 additions was our strongest quarter ever with net seat up to five times compared to the previous year. And as you probably have heard, we have more than 150,000 + registered partner to sell Office 365 and other Microsoft cloud services. Since February when we I have been on the road, GA Office 365 and hearing firsthand about the great business leads to partners and customers see with Office 365 ProPlus, Exchange online, Office 365 midsize business premium meeting with partners from all over the world, SharePoint online and Lync online such as devices and services, opening of new scenarios in collaboration, To embrace Exchange and communication.

This week on the worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) we are announcing several updates demonstrate the continued growth of the Office 365 and new opportunities for partners.

With Office 365 Pension Fund Manager partner the opportunity, through Office 365 open WPC programme last year announced. In response to partner feedback, it provided an opportunity, the billing relationship with their customers - top of the range sales and in advance margin record to have. Now, we will be announcing the expansion of the program open Office 365 ProPlus, Exchange online, business, Government, academic offer and more.

These new SKUs supplement that offers Office 365 medium-sized companies, the open program initiated in March 2013 in life and offer more flexibility and choice for customers and partners in their move to the cloud.  Also we more than 100 million to invest $ partner activation, except for margins and channel incentives.

The move to the cloud represents a new era of the partner opportunity. What is only the beginning of clients to the cloud and partners continue to have this relationship to customers, to support the Office 365 with their service offerings. And we will continue on our intention and own the customer relationship for partners deliver.

And with part of the Office family whining now, we have enormous dynamism in social enterprises and the interest of customers and partners as they can start, take advantage of new tools and features. The jammers affiliate program-enable FY14 focuses the activation of Microsoft partners to sell, deliver and whining to integrate.  There are also education and best practice guides help reach partner to deliver value across your organization, called around the Yammer method, which brings social travel network customer success and social enterprises.

Announced yesterday we BI to Office 365, makes a self-service-business intelligence (BI) solution, the functionality for analysis and visualization for deeper business insight into both Excel and the power to work together and scale in a trusted cloud environment with Office 365 combines. Connection with data in the cloud, users can power-BI for Office 365 or expand their existing on-premise data sources and systems quickly build and deploy self-service BI solutions.

Power BI for Office 365 allows customers to better results with your own data:

Analysis and insight into appealing Visual formats either indoors or in the cloud from Excel to present. Percentage reports and records online with content that is always up to date. Ask questions of your data by using natural language search and immediately receive a reply through interactive tables, charts and graphs. Access and stay with data and reports from your mobile devices connected, wherever you are.

We know that it's important for them to manage, and enable the collaboration of access to internal data to be in a trusted environment. Customers have access to our BI tools natively in Excel and findings to explore, find answers and can access their data relating to remain where they are. Customers can now for the power-BI for Office 365-preview, come later in this summer at www.office.com/powerbilogin. Watch the Office-News Blogfor more details about the newly launched power-BI.

Based on the success we've seen with Office store, we are 22 new markets with localized Office and SharePoint store fronts, as well as French, German, Spanish and Japanese language introduce apps.

We have already seen strong impulses for the apps in the Office and SharePoint storage, with nearly one million downloads. With Office and SharePoint store, developers have the opportunity to direct Office users through consumer and business audience - with more than to achieve 1 billion Office users around the world, this is a huge untapped market opportunities, to move customers in the cloud. All Office users have access to the store within the Office products and in the store itself, distribution and access, our partner apps make easy and seamless. Looking for more information about our new Office stores and availability of applications in other languages Office-News Blog.

I always appreciate the time I have to connect with our partners at WPC and learn how we can work better with them to better customer service. Feel free to take a look at our Office 365 blog to find out this week, what our partners through Office 365; and even though we just think of Office 365 cloud service, check out the video for a slightly irreverent view.

I'm looking to see what we can accomplish in the next year!

--Kirk Garcia, General Manager, Microsoft Office Division

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Along with worldwide commercial availability, Office 365 announces new global customers

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Today, we announced worldwide availability of the new Microsoft Office 365 services for business; the most complete Office cloud service to-date has new features and offerings tailored to meet the needs and budgets of small, medium and large organizations.

Since launching in mid-2011, Office 365 is one of the fastest growing businesses in Microsoft history. We are pleased to welcome new customers the Hamburg Port Authority, Sephora, and Midroc Europe to our growing family. Here's a little more about their stories:

As the largest port in Germany, the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) employs over 1,900 people who manage more than 7,000 hectares of port territory, both by land and sea, ensuring safe navigation of vessels coming in and out of the harbor.  

The winter season in Hamburg is particularly grueling for the HPA, with severe storms often resulting in hazardous surges and increased flooding across the region. It's during these times the ability to stay mobile and communicate in real time is crucial. With Office 365, HPA employees aboard water vessels rely on their tablet devices to measure and track wave size and water levels, and communicate directly with the harbor, responsible for monitoring emergency response. In a situation where every minute counts, the ability to connect in real-time and share critical weather updates are vital. 

HPA is also looking at the ability to reduce the IT labor hours to test, install, and update Office versions by 75 percent with Click-to-Run in Office 365 Pro Plus. And, by reducing this management time, the IT staff can focus their time on more strategic projects.

Sephora is a specialty beauty retailer with more than 1,650 stores within 29 countries in Europe and 115 locations in China. At Sephora, they don't want their employees to work more - they want them to work smarter by staying connected and able to work wherever they are. And they've found that with Office 365.

A major advantage Sephora staff has discovered is being able to access and edit documents with the roaming capabilities in Office 365 Pro Plus. Instead of carrying a laptop to and from the office, employees can access their files from their PC, mobile device or tablet allowing them to work in the office, on the road, or from home.

Midroc Europe, a Sweden-based organization comprised of 15 companies across Europe and South Africa, focuses on property development and management. With expanding operations and employees working remotely, Midroc Europe wanted to provide improved access to email and collaboration tools for their dispersed teams.

After evaluating several options, including Google Apps, they selected Office 365 to provide over 2,600 employees with an integrated communications experience including email, IM, voice and video capabilities in Office 365. They also see the social capabilities in SharePoint Online as yet another way to connect employees and foster learning. Employees who traditionally did not have a company-issued PC will be able to send or read email from their smartphone, and report their hours from a shared PC directly to SharePoint Online.  

We're excited and humbled to work with such a high caliber of businesses that are viewed as leaders in their industry and adopting new ways of leveraging the power of the cloud. We look forward to sharing more with you about how Office 365 is helping customers transform their businesses.

For more information, visit the Microsoft Office Division Press Room.

For a list of Office 365 features available on different phones and tablets, visit http://bit.ly/13hwUzC.

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OneNote Mobile for Android is now available worldwide

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For all of you who've been asking (and patiently waiting) for a version of OneNote for your Android phones, we have great news: OneNote Mobile for Android is now available! Download it from the Android Market app store today!

Mobile versions of OneNote are currently available on Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, and now Android. No matter which platform you prefer, OneNote Mobile lets you easily capture and access all of your notes and ideas on the go.

If you're already using OneNote on your PC, the mobile versions of OneNote let you take your notes with you — from simple lists and to-dos to full-fledged notebooks which you can share with your friends, family, co-workers, or classmates. With a free Microsoft SkyDrive account, you can easily sync all of your OneNote notebooks so they're always up-to-date and accessible from your mobile device, your Web browser, or your computer. (Learn how to move your notebooks to the cloud.)

OneNote Mobile for Android includes the following features:

Text formatting, images, and bulleted lists
To-do lists with clickable checkboxes
Quick photo capture with your phone's camera
Quick access to recent notes
Store and access multiple OneNote notebooks
Sync to your free SkyDrive account for access anywhere
Offline access to your notes
Option to sync notebooks only over a Wi-Fi connection
Built-in spelling checker
Support for external hyperlinks
Table editing

Here are a few examples of the OneNote Mobile for Android app in action:

    

    

OneNote Mobile for Android is free to download and use for up to 500 notes. When you've reached this limit, you can upgrade the app for a one-time fee of US $4.99 for unlimited use.

If you choose not to upgrade to the unlimited version, you can still view, sync, and delete any of your existing notes even after you've reached the 500 notes limit. However, you will no longer be able to edit your notes or create new ones on your Android phone.

For unlimited use pricing outside of the United States, please visit the Android Market in your region (see below for a complete list of supported countries and markets).

OneNote Mobile for Android is now available in the following markets:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Note:   It may take a bit of time before OneNote Mobile for Android appears in the Android Market app store in your region today. If you don’t see the app available for download right away, please check back in a little while!

If you require technical support for OneNote Mobile for Android or want to submit a feature request for the OneNote team, head on over to the OneNote forums on the Microsoft Answers website. Members of the OneNote product team regularly read and moderate these forums and it's the best way to get your questions answered.

Your feedback is very important to us. We want to continue to hear from you about how we can make the OneNote experience even better. Please consider posting a comment below to let us know how you like this first OneNote for Android release and what sort of features you'd like to see in the future.

Last but not least, please help us spread the news about this exciting new OneNote Mobile release with your fellow Android users by clicking the sharing options at the end of this post. Thank you!

-- Michael C. Oldenburg
 

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