Recently Microsoft has made some changes to Office 365. Users can choose of selecting between business and home accounts.
Home is associated with one individual in a sense. However, you’ll be required to join all of the employees within your business if you opt for a business account. If you’re not looking to share files with other people in your office, then home is better. If you have multiple computers at work then using a home account would be better because you can use the same email address on each of them. If you’re only running one or two computers in the office, then a corporate account is more beneficial. It allows you to collaborate with other users and facilitate managing them.
Maximum 5 email addresses per account These addresses will be used for primary mail. The first address is your primary address. The second address is an alternate address. Accounts for home use this feature, however, corporate accounts do. If you go for a home account , then your first email would be the primary email you use in normal situations However, starting from today, all emails that follow will be using the same user name as their sender’s name which may cause some confusion since it appears that they were created by you, although they were actually sent by someone else from your company.
Limits on size for files: Home accounts are limited to a size of 20 GB. If you’ve got several large files to transfer the business account will be the best choice since for each user and each office 365 webmail (Hotmail/Outlook) mailbox we can have 1TB of storage which is basically limitless in terms of file size.
Home accounts are meant to be used to share emails between you and your family members. It is not possible to share documents, but there are no other limitations. A business account on the other hand has no limitations whatsoever regarding whether you are able to share files , or not. However, it doesn’t allow users to share emails with others (so the majority of users has their own email address).
More details It is possible to join up to five individuals in one account, such as Microsoft Live/Outlook/Hotmail so if we were to establish a new email address, we’d require at least 2 of these accounts to be able to include up to 10 people into one account. Business accounts do not have this restriction and can be added to as many accounts as you want.
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