office 365 questions

Difference between office and office 365
Office is productivity software (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and OneNote) that is installed on your desktop or laptop computer. Office 365 is an online subscription service that provides email, shared calendars, the ability to create and edit documents online, instant messaging, web conferencing, a public website for your business, and internal team sites—all accessible anywhere from nearly any device.
Customers with Office 2010 installed on their computer can quickly configure their software to work with Office 365. These users can easily retrieve, edit and save Office docs in the Office 365 cloud, co-author docs in real-time with others, quickly initiate PC-to-PC calls, instant messages and web conferences with others.
Office 365 is also compatible with Office 2007 and newer editions of Office and select Office 365 plans include Office Professional Plus.

What is cloud?
The cloud is a friendly way of describing web-based computing services. Information storage, Computation, and software are located and managed remotely on servers owned by Microsoft.
How many users does office 365 support?
Office 365 is scalable and can support everyone from a one-person business to companies with tens of thousands of users. Office 365 for small business (Plan p1) is best for companies.
NAPA Tools
New toolset called “Napa”, which is the easiest way to start building apps for the new Cloud App Model.
“Napa” is a free app for SharePoint. Since “Napa” is web based, you don’t need to install anything on your machine to start developing for Office and SharePoint. Just fire up your browser and start coding. As your application matures and you need more advanced tools, you can seamlessly switch to the more powerful, fully featured Visual Studio IDE, and continue developing there.
Drawbacks of office 365
1. Storage. It’s more expensive per gigabyte.
2. Service Level Agreement. Microsoft offers a lower SLA than most top-tier hosting companies. They do not guarantee 99.999% uptime.
3. Comprehensive. An organization may not need or want all of the features offered – or the cost that comes with it.
4. Features/functionality limitations. In comparing the on-site and online versions of SharePoint, an organization might find that the limitations of the latter are a deal-breaker.
5. Impersonal hosting relationship. Microsoft is the hosting provider, and it will be challenged to match the rewarding, personalized experience that organizations often have with a smaller hosting provider – one who blends seamlessly into the organization’s own IT staff.
6. Loss of flexibility and control. An organization can keep its on-premise infrastructure, and using the hybrid capabilities, still deploy Office 365 in the cloud.

Office 365

Office 365(office 365 is a one system for everything)
Office 365 is the new technology for developing applications in online (cloud) . By using this technology we can able to access share point, outlook , Lync ,Office (power point, Word, Excel ) Applications in anywhere in any mobile or computer through online.
This technology is new to us. So, We have done R & D on this office 365.We understand one thing  I, e.  Before developing application in office 365 we need to setup office 365 environment in our desktop. For that purpose we have created account in http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/  .
They have given share point server for developing App’s in office 365.Microsoft will provide the environment for 30 days trial version to develop App’s in server, After completion of trail period they will block our account as well as tasks which has done by us.
We  installed NAPA tools to the office 365 developer preview. We have taken Content App for Excel to developing App in office 365 cloud environment. Finally introduced Hello World Application to the world in our office 365 cloud account .

With Office 365, you can get your work done securely and communicate real-time from almost anywhere.* Combining Office with Office 365** unlocks the full potential of Office 365 as the best solution for productivity, collaboration, communication, and worry-free IT.
Office 365 Features
1.Cloud based professional email.
2.Video Conferencing and IM
3.Share files inside and outside your organization.
4.Easy and secure Administration.
5.Financially backed reliability
6.Predictable monthly costs with no up-front infrastructure costs.
Plus these capabilities
1.Ability to view and edit documents with your colleagues from almost anywhere.
2.Communication using audio,video and IM from almost anywhere.
3.Ability to focus more on your business and less on your technology.
Office 365 Web Apps
Microsoft Office Web Apps is a web-based version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. It includes the web-based versions of Microsoft Word,Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote. The web applications allow users to access their documents directly from anywhere within a web browser as well as share files and collaborate with other users online.
Microsoft Office Web Apps are a part of most Office 365 plans. Office Web Apps make it easier for you to work in the cloud because they open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents in your web browser.
Documents that are stored in your SkyDrive and your team sites, attachments in Outlook Web App, meeting notes in Lync Web App: you have access to these whenever you have an Internet connection, from almost any device. And sharing documents with others is as simple as sending a link