Quelles sont les nouveautés dans la prochaine version BPOS/Microsoft Online? (nouveau nom: Office 365)

Vous êtes nombreux à nous poser des questions sur notre feuille de route, les détails de la 'Wave 14' (maintenant appelée Office 365), etc. Toutes ces informations sont maintenant publiques. En voici les grandes lignes :

 Nouveautés Office Web Apps

  • Word Web App
  • Excel Web App
  • PowerPoint Web App
  • OneNote Web App

Nouveautés Exchange Online

  • Voice mail with Unified Messaging
  • Integrated archiving
  • Retention policies and legal hold
  • Transport rules
  • Multi-mailbox search
  • Conversation View
  • MailTips
  • Enhanced Web-based administration
  • Role-Based Access Control
  • Remote PowerShell
  • Free/busy between cloud and on-premises
  • Cross-premises management
  • Native migration tools

Nouveautés SharePoint Online

  • Portal site templates
  • Extranet access
  • Anonymous Access
  • Multi-Lingual UI
  • Office 2010 integration
  • Tagging, Rating, Tag Cloud
  • Activity Feed, Social Networking, Note Board
  • Improved Wikis & Blogs
  • Content publishing
  • Navigation controls
  • Cross site-collection search
  • Phonetic search
  • People search
  • Visio Services
  • Excel Services
  • Sandboxed Solutions
  • Improved workflows
  • Improved SharePoint Designer 2010
  • Access Services
  • Better controls of FQDNs

Nouveautés Office Communications Online *

  • P2P A/V across firewall
  • File transfer across firewall
  • Presence with pictures
  • Federation
  • IM with Windows Live

* Additional features will be available based on Communications Server "14" as part of ongoing service updates.

Mises à jour de la Plateforme

  • Free/Busy co-existence
  • Single Sign On
  • Identity federation
  • Redesigned admin interface
  • More administration and access control

Pré-Requis Systèmes

Operating System

  • Windows *
    • Windows XP SP3 with RPC over HTTP patch
    • Windows Vista SP2
    • Windows 7
  • Mac
  • 10.5 (Leopard)
  • 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

Client Office **

  • Office 2007 SP2 or Office 2010
  • Office 2008 for Mac & Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition, Office 2011
  • .NET 2.0 or later
  • Lync
  • Mac Messenger 9

Navigateur

  • Administration Center and My Company Portal
  • Internet Explorer 7 or higher for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
  • Firefox 3.x
  • Safari 4.x
  • Outlook Web App
    • Internet Explorer 7 or later
    • Firefox 3 or later
    • Safari 3 or later on Macintosh OS X 10.5
    • Chrome 3 or later
  • Outlook Web App Light ***
    • Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
    • Firefox 2 or later
    • Safari 3 or later
    • Opera

* Windows XP Home and Windows Media Center edition are supported but will not support federated identity.

** Office client is not required for customers who choose browser-only access. We are currently investigating Office 2003 support and will publish a list of supported capabilities in the future. Office Communicator '14' will be generally available later this year.

*** OWA Light is designed to optimize the OWA experience for slower connections and alternative Web browsers. For more information about the differences between OWA Premium and OWA Light, see TechNet: Client Features in Outlook Web Access .