Introduction

Microsoft’s online offerings have continued to evolve since the first debut of the Live@Edu service in 2005. Four years later, in April 2009, Microsoft expanded its cloud services offering with the launch of Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services. Over the last 18 years, Microsoft has steadily rolled out new features to the service and paved the way for today’s modern Microsoft 365 platform.

Microsoft 365 enables organizations as small as a single person or as large as the world’s biggest multinational retailers and manufacturers to harness the power of cloud scaling, automation, and availability. Microsoft’s online services currently enable over 200 million monthly active users to collaborate—whether they’re in the same ...

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