
Sway: A presentation web par that allows users to combine text, images and videos locally and from the wider internet to create a usable website.Delve: A technology based on Office Graph that presents “relevant information” to you based on your actions and interactions with colleague, files and so on.NextGen Portals: Out of the box “ready to go” portals.Office 365 does currently have a number of ‘exclusive’ features.

Microsoft is now looking at bringing some of the more advanced Cloud features of Office 365, like Delve, to those still operating On Prem SharePoint – the release of SharePoint 2016 will start to address this.

Then Microsoft really started to focus on the Cloud and Office 365 started pulling ahead in terms of what it offered end users. Office 365, or its even earlier incarnation BPOS (remember that one!), was quite a way behind SharePoint 20. Back in the early days of Office 365 these differences were quite pronounced. On Prem and Cloud SharePoint, or rather Office 365, also differ by feature set. More information is available here, though obviously pricing will vary by country and region.

Office 365: Released in 2011 (With SharePoint2010 interface).To start, it might help if we build a quick timeline of recent history: This blog post is the first of three posts that’s going to look at the key differences between SharePoint versions. The product has evolved enormously and we wanted to take a look at exactly what’s changed. Over the years, and across these versions, we’ve seen quite significant changes in SharePoint. Delve a little deeper and we’re sure that SharePoint 2003, and even 2001, are still kicking around somewhere in the darker corners of some companies. The product currently has at least 4 versions still in active use – SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013 and Office 365.īut that’s not all SharePoint 2016 is soon to join the family. The SharePoint landscape has a quite fascinating history.
