Review: Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Services

Office 365 is Microsoft's suite of cloud-based services for small businesses, including online versions of Office applications. Using it may be inevitable for some types of small businesses, Jonathan Blum says. And that's not an entirely good thing.

"For good or for bad, Microsoft is finally stepping into the small-business cloud-computing.

Microsoft's Web-based version of its franchise Office product, branded as Office 365 ($6 per user per month), came out of private beta today with company executives flatly stating that the Internet is the one and only future for Microsoft."