Microsoft Office 365 and Office Live Small Business (OLSB)
On April 30, 2012, we are discontinuing Office Live Small Business. We would like to offer you an opportunity to self-transition to Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses.
To get you started, we are offering you an exclusive six-month free trial of Office 365 for professionals and small businesses and Office Professional Plus, which includes:
A spam-filtering email account
Document sharing with employees, customers, and clients
Microsoft Office Web Apps: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote
Instant messaging, audio/video calls, and online meetings
Simple website management
The latest version of Office 2010 desktop applications
For now, Office Live Small Business customers can continue to use the service. All OLSB customers will receive - or have already received - an email explaining how to access the six-month free trial. You can also follow the self transition guide to move over your website, email, contacts and calendar to Office 365 or hire a Microsoft Partner to help you.
Why is Microsoft replacing the Office Live Small Business service with Office 365?
Small businesses have told us that they want a more comprehensive, professional-grade set of small business productivity tools. Microsoft Office 365 does this by bringing together online versions of the best communications and collaboration tools from Microsoft, giving small businesses new capabilities:
Professional email with anti-spam, antivirus protection and a 25 gigabyte (GB) mailbox
Improved tools for document collaboration and version control
Online meeting and instant messaging (IM) capabilities
An improved mobile experience
Simple, public-facing website tools and hosting
Financially-backed reliability and security.
All at a price affordable for most small businesses.
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Please note: If you do not transition your subscription, your email account and website will be deactivated and all content will be deleted after 30 April 2012.
Thankyou for being an Office Live Small Business customer.
