Microsoft recently paid a hefty sum of US $ 250,000 to the authorities of University of Nebraska in order to switch to Office 365 and move all the university's e-mail communication systems with Microsoft.
Sticking to the earlier plans, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the launch of Office 365 on Tuesday in an event in New York. This takes out Office 365 from its nine months of beta stage.
Microsoft's cloud based Office Suite - Office 365 will be finally released on June 28, 2011. The company's CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the launch date while addressing the press in India.
Office 365 is a cloud based offering from Microsoft that is intended to compete with Google's Google Docs web-based software suite. Microsoft has started testing Office 365 for a limited number of users. Here are a few screenshots of it's UI (User Interface).