re: Office 365 today or wait for the next version

Michael Icore — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:28:48 GMT

Jack

if you have academic customers, and they are on Office 365 for education, they will move to the next version as well. They will stay with whatever plan they have today, so if they are on A2, they will stay on A2 after the upgrade. The base offering for EDU is A2 (eq. of E2), which includes Exchange Online Plan 1, SharePoint Online Plan 1, Lync Plan 2 and the Office Web Apps. SkyDrive Pro is part of SharePoint Plan 1, so there are no issues for our academic customers. They should not be going to the Enterprise, Small Business or Home versions however, they need to be on the academic platform to maintain the no cost solution of A2. Finally if a customer wants to see the preview of the new Office 365 they can use the enterprise version, but the preview environment is purely disposable.

re: Office 365 today or wait for the next version

Jack M — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:47:06 GMT

Hi,

I'm concerned about what plans my clients will be moved to. It looks like the only official plans released are Home, Small Business and Enterprise. The small business plan appears to be 12 dollars and includes more features, but allows for less users. Where will the P1 users go? Will they get access to new features like SkyDrive Pro? How about E1 users? If I sign up an E1 client today, will they get SkyDrive Pro?

I ask because a lot of my clients are specifically asking for SkyDrive and I can't be sure which current plans will get them, what it'll cost if it doesn't and how much the updated plans will cost (and what they are, exactly) if we wait.