Microsoft's full-fat E5 Office 365 plan with phone extras goes live

We've had office 365 personal for a couple of years.

We don't use onedrive because it is useless, it couldn't relaibly sync anything and was extremely slow even though we have fibre at home. Went back to dropbox. As far as I can tell features keep disappearing instead of being improved. e.g. there used to be a images and drawings repository for publisher. Now nothing.

Very unlikely to 'go cloud' at work, we simply don't have people working at internet cafe's and can do all the collaboration we want with other tools on their laptops or tablets if we want to take the productivity hit of not using a keyboard.

What about those who barely use MSO

Slurpping data and money both, what deal. Slurp needs Office36? to be a success. But who is its target market, not enterprise, SOHO and SMBs. Generally, a market that can mostly use a version about two or three releases back based on the features they need. Other than security updates, what is the killer feature this group needs? In fact I suspect most enterprise users would do quite well on the same versions.

Software subscriptions will force people to pick an choose which software they are willing shell out for every month. Many are not in the mode for Slurp to have a hand in their pockets. The return is too meager to justify the expense.

"There are additional security features. E5 "Advanced Security" includes Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for Exchange Online, with behavioral malware analysis and blocking and tracing of malicious links in emails. ATP is also available as an add-on for other plans."

This wonderful offer brought to you by the company whose Hotmail/Live/Outlook/NameOfTheWeek service leaks spam pretending to be from themselves. This really is something they should be on top of if for no other reason that they're tolerating infringement of their own trademarks.

All eggs in one basket? No Way!

After numerous complete Azure/365 outages (including one this week), why would anyone stump up yet more money (ok it is a bit different) for this package?

I would want a compensation clause of £100 per minute (there are only 4 of us here, others may want/need more) before even considering it? If their system is that good then where is the risk to M$?

Until the the licence starts to offer some tangible safeguards against M$'s systems failing, putting your whole business in their cloud is sheer lunacy.

I'd like to know some details

Like who keeps the keys to per file encryption - the link was not technical enough. I surely did not backup recovery key from my W8 tablet (if only because it'd require me to setup MS account).

While I can see everyone on MS side feeling like in a glass house where you're being watched all the time, at some admin level you are in control, plain and simple. And the data is siting and waiting 24/7, it's just likely that they don't care (neither to do good or evil). Also, this customer granting access = he/she clicks OK because what's the choice once you can't reach your data.

Always remember

You don't own cloud software. You lease it.

And if it is free, you are the product.

Just rubbish

Work has office 365 and it truly sucks. Being a turbo nerd I never touch word processors (LaTeX baby!!) and I run Linux, so I admit I am not their target audience. We run our email through 365, and the web client is far worse than even the old outlook web interface. Word online is a joke, 3-4 times I have needed to edit a document someone sent me and every time it has just thrown an error message about unsupported features or the file being too big. What is the point of a cloud office if it supports office features worse then open office. Utterly pathetic.