Learn More on Office 365 for Professionals and Small Businesses

Following the release of Office 365 earlier this year, Microsoft is offering more info on how professionals and small businesses can take advantage of it, and a new document aimed exactly at this is now available for download.

Published in June 2011, the new “Microsoft Office 365 (Plan P1) Service Description” doc is meant at providing a detailed walkthrough for those interested in learning more on the features and functionality of Office 365 for professionals and small businesses (P1) service.

We’re talking here about a Microsoft Word document that contains a number of 38 pages and that features content structured in 9 chapters.

For those who are at their first encounter with Microsoft’s product, the document comes with a description of Office 365, for a better understanding of the features and capabilities it arrives with.

“Office 365 for professionals and small businesses (Plan P1) is a set of web-enabled tools that lets you access your e-mail, important documents, contacts, and calendars from virtually anywhere and on almost any device,” the said document reads.

“Designed for organizations with one to 25 employees (with a technical limit of 50 users maximum), the service brings together online versions of the best business-grade communications and collaboration tools from Microsoft plus Microsoft Office Web Apps at a price that small businesses can afford. “

One other thing that should be noted here is that Office 365 was designed to work with a series of programs that are already widely popular around the world, including — Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

“This is the much-anticipated cloud service that gives small businesses the capabilities and efficiencies to grow and target more rapid success,” the said document continues.

One other thing that this document explains is the system requirements for Office Web Apps, as well as for Lync 2010, which provides a seamless collaboration solution through messaging, audio and video calling at the enterprise level.

The “Microsoft Office 365 (Plan P1) Service Description” document is available for download from Microsoft’s website here.