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By John Higgins
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Let me start by telling you what Office 365 is not. It is not the next major release of the Office desktop suite of applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.). The Office suite is just one component of Office 365.

I like to describe Office 365 as an ecosystem which is made up of three main components:

  1. Office desktop suite of applications

  2. Office mobile applications

  3. Office 365 cloud applications

All three pieces work together in harmony to provide a single, comprehensive platform for collaboration and communication within your organization, as well as with external users, as appropriate.

Let us take a closer look at each of the three components.

Office Desktop Suite