Windows Azure is a flexible platform consisting of an operating system, a fully relational database, and consumable Web-based services. It offers schools, colleges, and universities new opportunities for creating open, transparent, and collaborative services.
Specifically for education institutions, Live@edu provides students, staff, faculty, and alumni with long-term, primary e-mail addresses and other applications that they can use to collaborate and communicate online-at no charge to your education institution.
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) Delivers security-enhanced, hosted communication and collaboration tools, including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online.
Offers online tools to help your school protect itself from spam and malicious software, satisfy retention requirements for e-discovery and compliance, encrypt data to preserve confidentiality, and maintain access to e-mail during and after emergency situations.
Helps users efficiently centralize information and correspondence, identify prospects, and capture workflows.
Office 2010 Web Apps provide on-demand access to the Web-based version of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, including Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint.