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As more firms think about enabling their aorneys to work on
any device at any time, more and more CIOs could make the mistake
of assuming that Office 365 will instantly give them everything they
need. First you need to understand the limitations of Office 365
before you charge headlong into the cloud.
Let's not begin by making flawed assumptions. Not all legal
firms are thinking about mobile working yet. There may well
be many who simply want Office 365 because it provides other
advantages. Instead of buying a product in the conventional way,
with Office 365, you are just renting it. There's no more need to live
with older versions of Word, Outlook, Excel or PowerPoint until you
get around to replacing them. There's no more need to budget for a
big spend every time the firm updates its Microso soware. With
Office 365, you're subscribing to a service that automatically offers
updates to the latest version (although you need not deploy them).
And as with any other subscription model, you're paying a regular fee
with no more one-off payments.
If this was why you wanted Office 365, or are contemplating
geing it—that's great. You will continue to have all of the
functionality you had before. Your users will see nothing different,
and their experience of using the soware will not change. Infact
nothing will change except the frequency of updates, and how you
pay for them.
However, if you want something different from what you have–
specifically a way to enable agile working—and you think Office 365
may seamlessly deliver it, think again.
In my experience, a surprising number of people don't
understand what Office 365 really is. They don't understand there
by Mark Garnish of Tikit
Getting Ready: The Lowdown
on Office 365 Compatibility
Geing Ready: The Lowdown on Office 365 Compatibility
