Microsoft is adding some new capabilities â which include Exchange ActiveSync support â to its lowest-end Office 365 offering.

In a post to help his âThe microsoft project 2010 Display Boardâ blog, project professional 2010 Senior Partner Technological know-how Advisor Jesper Osgaard described most of the tweaks the Softies are making to the Office 365 K-plan (kiosk workman plan):

Exchange Online Kiosk Plan: project professional 2007 is adding Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) help for mobile devices to the current Exchange Online Kiosk approach. Currently, users with that will plan only have TAKE mail capabilities. âWith that change, we will enable all smartphones that help EAS, including iPhone, Andriod phones, Nokia phones (Symbian), together with Windows phones, â Osgaard blogged.

E-mail storage space: Microsoft is doubling e-mail storage for K plan people from 500 MB to at least one GB.

Exchange Online Archiving: Microsoft will be enabling âExchange Online Archiving (EOA) which include legal hold and indefinite storage, to be offered as an add-on to any Exchange Online plan, including Kiosk together with Exchange Plan 1, â he or she said.

I asked Osgaard when these changes may be effective and he said that date holds TBD (to be determined). Microsoft is rolling out updates across Office 365 on a quarterly basis, with the latest set of updates hitting right at the end of 2011. Microsoft is believed to have sold for longer than 5 million Office 365 seat designs, 90 percent of that create gone to small establishments.

Office 365 is that Microsoft-hosted bundle of Change Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online that Microsoft launched in late June 2010. It is regarded as being Microsoftâs alternative to Yahoo Apps. The Kiosk arrange for Office 365 currently will start at $2 per user per month. I have a question in to the Office 365 team relating to the timing and whether there will be any pricing changes on account of these new features.

Up-date: Microsoft officials are not commenting on when the new features will be fired up. However, one Office 365 MVP, Loryan Strant, said that will happen globally âaround March 2012. â Microsoft officials did say that this new features will get in on both Exchange Online Nited kingdom and Office 365 K, with prices remaining at $2 per user every month, and $4 per user per month, respectively.