Office 365

[Otto]

To all,
is someone useing Office 365.
Best regards,
Otto

[Otto]

I mapped my skydrive to S:\ an copied data.dbf and testbrw.exe to this drive.
Then I ran the program. All is working fine.
Best regards,
Otto

[Rick Lipkin]

Otto

Try your program from the local side pointing to the data on S:\ and see what happens ??

Rick Lipkin

[Otto]

Rick,
I know that the exe is executed locally.
But the data is on skydrive and that surprised me. You get 7 GB of space for free.
I don’t know what for this can be usefully for me but the possibility surprised me.

Outlook local and Office 365 (Exchange server) seems as far as I tested a good and easy to administrate solution.

At the moment we are studying the licenses of “plan E4”. Here you get for around 20€/month 5 local copies of word per user.
This seems cheaper than to buy Office.
As we run all our software on RDP servers we need Office standard edition which you can install on a server and then the same edition for each user.

Best regards,
Otto

[TimStone]

Otto,

OK ... I have been using regular Office 365 Small Business for a year. It provides me with an exchange server, website and sharepoint plus full online version of Office ... and my 2010 installed Office interacts with it. It is a nice product.

I also am using Office 2013 Preview ( what I believe you are referring to as Office 365 ). Yes, it does have Sky Drive available ( 7 GB ). You can store the documents locally or on Sky Drive. You do that automatically through your Save commands. The advantage of Sky Drive is that you have immediate, live, access to your data from anywhere. I could be working in my office, get a call that I need to leave immediately to go somewhere ( and that does happen ), and I can grab my slate or notebook, take off ( no sync necessary ), go to the other location, and then resume my work as if I was on my same machine !.

Tim

[TimStone]

Let me clarify one other point in your post. You get the complete office suite in the subscription, not just Word.

I love the Exchange Server. My phone, and ALL my devices ( even my iPod ) connect to it. I can respond to anyone from anywhere, and any changes I make to email, contacts, calendar, and tasks is updated instantly at every device. If I don't have an internet connection, everything is still maintained locally, and remains synced when I do have a connection. So if I'm "out of range" I can still respond to emails, add to my calendar and stuff, and as soon as I'm "in range" of an internet connection, everything automatically updates.

Tim