FAQ Category: Hosted Cloud Services

You don’t need to install anything in order to use Office 365.

To easily connect your desktop version of Office 2010 and 2007 to Office 365, Microsoft provides Office 365 customers an installable piece of software – called Office desktop setup – at no charge.

You can find and install Office desktop setup in your Office 365 administration centre. If your plan includes a subscription to Office 2013 applications, you will also be able to install that directly from the Office 365 administration centre.

Office 365 works best with the latest version of Office, Office 2010, and Office 2011 for Mac. Office 365 works with Office 2007 with slightly limited functionality.

If you have an earlier edition of Office, you will need to update to a newer version of Office in order to use Office 365; or you can subscribe to one of the many Office 365 plans that include the latest version of the Office suite.

In addition to getting the latest version of Office as part of your subscription, you will also get automatic updates, so you will always be up to date.

Office 365 is a selection of subscription plans that include access to Office applications, plus other productivity services that are enabled over the Internet (cloud services), such as Microsoft Teams and Exchange Online hosted email for business, and additional online storage with OneDrive.

Many Office 365 plans also include the desktop version of the latest Office applications, which you can install across multiple computers and devices.

The Office 365 plans that are online-only are a great choice for certain business needs, and they are compatible with desktop versions of the latest version of Office, Office 2010, Office 2007 (with slightly limited functionality), Office 2011 for Mac, and Office 2008 for Mac.

All Office 365 plans are paid for on a subscription basis, monthly or annually.