Office 365 offers Office Web Apps plus access to hosted versions of Outlook e-mail, Sharepoint collaboration, and Lync instant messaging (formerly Office Communicator), as well as the ability to download the full version of Office 2010 Professional Plus.

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It provides for secure and virtually anywhere access to email, calendars, Office Web Apps, instant messaging, conferencing and file sharing, allowing employees to work on the go, on nearly any device.

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The Vault stores written messages such as Bloomberg messages, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Notes, instant messages, social media and mobile messaging for about 540 clients who have stuffed 66 billion records, several petabytes, into the Vault.

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It is certainly powerful enough to run office suite applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, e-mail, instant messaging, Internet access for surfing and blogging, playing a few tunes and watching a DVD in flight (the battery will get you across America, if not an ocean).

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The office seemed almost eerily quiet and untroubled, a room full of stylish people wearing headphones and instant-messaging one another.

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