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Introduction

Evaluation, migration, and purchasing for Office 365 are outlined in the Nov. 2014 Research Report, “Office 365 Evaluation Guide.”

Office 365 service descriptions, which explain subscription plans and their components, are at https://technet.microsoft.com/library/office-365-service-descriptions.aspx.

Office 365 E5 was announced at https://blogs.office.com/2015/07/13/news-from-wpc-invested-in-partner-growth.

Microsoft’s Office 365 roadmap is at success.office.com/roadmap.

The Online Services Support Lifecycle Policy is at https://support.microsoft.com/gp/osslpolicy.

Office 365 First Release is described at https://support.office.com/article/Office-365-release-options-3B3ADFA4-1777-4FF0-B606-FB8732101F47.

Release and retirement plans for Microsoft enterprise software are outlined in more detail in the Enterprise Software Roadmap.

For an overview and roadmap for Azure services, see the Azure Roadmap.

Exchange Online

Exchange Server 2016 is discussed in “Exchange 2016 Refreshes On-Premises Offering” on page 3 of the Aug. 2015 Update.

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