What's the community's experience with this? I have a small business customer who is making an emergency switch of email providers. Their mom and pop web host is continuously falling down with email service, they're down right now and we're going to switch now. Just ordered 9 seats of Office 365 email essentials for one year. In the process of setting up the accounts.
But, they've all got Office 2007, including Outlook 2007. Will that work? My initial searches tell me that it will "kinda" work.
If I tell them they have to upgrade to Office 2013 Home and Business at $180 x 9 that's not gonna fly. They're not going to be ready for the bigger 365 packages that include the desktop apps either.
Should I keep moving forward with Office 365 for email or punt and go back to POP / IMAP or maybe Google Apps?