Microsoft introduced Wednesday a version of its Office 365 cloud productivity suite that's aimed at educational institutions, from K-12 to post-secondary. The company said it ultimately plans to move its current educational customers off its existing Live@Edu service to the new offering.
Office 365 for Education gives students free access to online versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and allows them to connect to each other and to their instructors through cloud-based editions of Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. Live@Edu used Microsoft's more limited Hotmail and SkyDrive services for e-mail, storage, and document sharing. It also did not offer the Lync collaboration environment.
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