It has been six or seven years since Microsoft's Office suite moved to the cloud service Office 365. Now it will be replaced by a new productivity platform - Microsoft 365, which will be launched in China on April 22. In view of the current special situation, the Teams remote conferencing service will be free for half a year.
The news that Microsoft 365 will replace Office 365 has been announced before. Microsoft China also announced this news today and talked about some progress in the domestic localization of Microsoft 365.
Microsoft said that Microsoft 365 is an advanced productivity cloud platform and tools including Windows 10 (applicable to some versions), Office 365 and EMS enterprise mobile security suite (applicable to some versions).
Currently, there are more than 215 million monthly active users around the world using Microsoft's productivity tools, of which 128 million users use modern office services every day, and 135 million users use Outlook mobile version.
Microsoft 365 still provides classic office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote, and will further incorporate more artificial intelligence. Its service user base is expanding from the traditional "office staff" to include sales, service, and technical personnel. Including "front-line workers", multiple versions of it help more people use their productivity and creativity in their respective positions by integrating innovative applications such as Teams and Power Apps.
In the Chinese market, with the new generation of intelligent remote conferencing system Microsoft Teams as the core, the Microsoft 365 China team has developed the "Workhub" application to create a one-stop work platform on Team for corporate customers.
The platform can import customers' existing business applications by accessing H5 and other programs. It also supports the development of Teams native applications and Power Apps low-code applications. It also supports centralized policy deployment and default installation, allowing enterprise customers to build on Teams conveniently and quickly. A work platform for internal employees and business management.
In addition, by integrating LUIS natural language understanding technology, the Microsoft 365 China team developed the "Advanced Chatbot" application for Teams. The automatic conversation robot can receive and understand Chinese and English conversations in the Teams interface, and automatically perform queries and feedback.
Microsoft 365 will be officially launched on April 21. In China, it will be April 22. Existing Office 365 subscribers will be upgraded to Microsoft 365 for free. The subscription price remains unchanged. The personal version in mainland China is 398 yuan per year, and the home version is 498 yuan per year. Yuan (contains up to 6 users).
In addition, in response to the demand for remote working and video conferencing during the epidemic, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Teams intelligent remote conferencing service, an important component of the Microsoft 365 global version, will provide six months of free service to new users in the global market.
Among them, the Microsoft 365 China team took the lead in launching a six-month free Teams service for domestic users. During the epidemic, the usage of Teams increased by 500%.
