What's New in Business Applications and Services

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Major developments for Microsoft’s business applications roadmap since the June 2013 Enterprise Software Roadmap include the following:

Office 365 and the individual Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online services are being upgraded to Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, and SharePoint 2013 for existing customers.
SP2 shipped for Office, SharePoint, and related applications in July 2013.
Office mobile apps for Office 365 subscribers shipped for Android smartphones, iPhones, and iPod Touches in the middle of 2013.
Microsoft announced Power BI for Office 365, a new cloud-only business intelligence offering, with licensing and packaging to be announced later in 2013.
Free Lync tablet and smartphone apps for iOS and Android arrived in the platforms’ respective app stores.
Lync Server, Lync Online, and Lync 2013 desktop client updates in July 2013 delivered improvements for conferencing, scheduling, and other functions.
The Lync Windows Store app received updates

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