Microsoft Cloud version Office product beta release: Office 365

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft in Tuesday in 13 countries synchronized release of the limited beta version of Office 365.

Office 365 is a cloud version of Office products, including components such as Office Web Apps, Exchange Online, SharePoint online, and Lync Online. Microsoft plans to launch its official commercial version of Office 365 next year.

According to Microsoft, a small business user-tailored Small business version of Office 365 is priced at $6 a month per user-for smaller businesses with a staff size of 25 people. And for large enterprise users, Microsoft will provide more matching services, such as the monthly Office Professional Plus, monthly fee of 24 U.S. dollars per user monthly.

Microsoft says only thousands of companies are now involved in limited testing and will then expand to more users. Also, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will also be included in Office 365.

It is not clear whether Office 365 replaces the Microsoft Business productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS), which includes managed version Exchange and SharePoint, But does not include Office Web Apps.

Microsoft officials stressed at a news conference that Office 365 was Microsoft's most powerful product and that the company believed that future products would be released in the form of cloud-based software.

Kurt DelBene, president of Microsoft Office, said Microsoft customers would no longer have to ask them if they should migrate their local software to the cloud, and now they are concerned about when to migrate and how to migrate.