Calling it the “biggest year of Office ever with the move to Office 365,” jovial tech journalist Paul Thurrott (of Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows) gushes about it in the latest Office “Garage Series” episode, the last of a six-part series shot in New Orleans.
The video above, also featured on the Office 365 technology blog, focuses the spotlight on Office 365, which has already sold a million licenses sold. Thurrott tells host Jeremy Chapman his favorite things about Office 365:
Its new licensing model, in which users can install Office up to five times on PCs and Macs, which matches with the reality of people having multiple devices.
A “version-less” Office with subscriptions, which includes not just bug fixes but updates with new features.
Mobile support across devices, platforms and an increasing selection of mobile apps (such as those coming out on SharePoint).
SkyDrive Pro, which he explains on the blog is especially pertinent to him as a professional writer. “I’m using everything from the familiar Office applications, the ability to roam my content via the cloud and work from both Windows and non-Windows devices and work both online and offline. This is really great especially when I work while travelling on the plane, I can sync changes back later and always have my work saved in the cloud, which I can then share with others inside and outside my organization.”
Expansion of Lync to the masses, which he explains on the blog, “There’s also the fantastic Lync capabilities such as audio and video chat, simple text instant messaging, presence information to allow people to contact you while online which goes across Office 365 too and integration with phone systems that I’m using a lot.”
Office’s “Garage Series” shot a six-part special in New Orleans, where they integrated some of the local flavor through alligator wrestling as well as ways SkyDrive helped put together a song for a blues band. They ended with this episode.
Find out more about why Office 365 made such a big impression on Thurrott on the Office 365 technology blog.
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