13 Facts About Office 365

Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft.

The ability to provide a link to a Yammer network from an Office 365 portal was introduced in June 2013, with heavier integration to be introduced in July 2013.

In June 2014, the amount of OneDrive storage offered to Office 365 subscribers was increased to 1 terabyte from 20 GB.

Microsoft Office 365 is sold via Microsoft and its cloud services reseller network.

On March 30,2020, Microsoft announced that the consumer plans of Office 365 would be rebranded as "Microsoft 365" on April 21,2020, succeeding existing consumer plans of Office 365.

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The Office 365 brand remains in use for its enterprise, education, healthcare, and governmental plans.

An active Microsoft Office 365 subscription is still required to unlock certain advanced editing features, use the apps on devices with screens larger than 10.

Microsoft Office 365 offers subscription plans aimed at different needs and market segments, providing different sets of features at different price points.

Email service, task management, calendar application, and contacts manager included with business and enterprise Office 365 subscriptions are under the Outlook on the web brand.

Business and enterprise-oriented plans for Office 365 offer access to cloud-hosted versions of Office's server platforms on a software as a service basis, including Exchange, Skype for Business, SharePoint, and the browser-based Office Web Apps suite.

On business plans, Office 365 includes cloud-based collaboration services such as Delve, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer.

Microsoft Office 365 platform uses a rolling release model; updates to the online components of the service are provided once per quarter.

In May 2012, Microsoft announced that Office 365 was now compliant with the Federal Information Security Management Act: compliance with the act would now allow Office 365 to be used by US government agencies.