You work for a hip tech startup with a combination of Linux, Mac and Windows PCs. Most users opt to use company provided devices but some users instead receive a monthly stipend and use personal devices. Which product and licensing model would make the most sense for sharing documents, presentations and spreadsheets amongst employees?
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Given the requirements of the situation Microsoft 365 is the best choice as it provides Microsoft Office licensing including both desktop and cloud options. This means users on personal devices or unsupported operating systems could use the web based cloud options while others could use either the desktop applications or web based cloud options. Libre Office is a free software but has no cloud equivalents. Mac Office for iCloud is not a real thing. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing suite focusing on PaaS and IaaS. IBM OfficeSphere is also not a real thing but is a pretty cool name.
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Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft. It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, programs formerly marketed under the name Microsoft Office (including applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Microsoft Windows, macOS, mobile devices, and on the web), enterprise products and services associated with these products such as Exchange Server, SharePoint, and Yammer. It also covers subscription plans encompassing these products, including those that include subscription-based licenses to desktop and mobile software, and hosted email and intranet services.
The branding Office 365 was introduced in 2010 to refer to a subscription-based software as a service platform for the corporate market, including hosted services such as Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync Server, and Office on the web. Some plans also included licenses for the Microsoft Office 2010 software. Upon the release of Office 2013, Microsoft began to promote the service as the primary distribution model for the Microsoft Office suite, adding consumer-focused plans integrating with services such as OneDrive and Skype, and emphasizing ongoing feature updates (as opposed to non-subscription licenses, where new versions require purchase of a new license, and do not receive feature updates).
In July 2017, Microsoft introduced a second brand of subscription services for the enterprise market known as Microsoft 365, combining Office 365 with Windows 10 Enterprise volume licenses and other cloud-based security and device management products. On April 21, 2020, Office 365 was rebranded as Microsoft 365, to emphasize the service's current inclusion
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