Microsoft is adding some new capabilities — including Exchange ActiveSync support — to its lowest-end Office 365 providing.

In a post to his “The microsoft project 2010 Display Board” blog, project professional 2010 Senior Partner Technological know-how Advisor Jesper Osgaard described some of the tweaks the Softies are making to the Office 365 K-plan (kiosk worker plan):

Exchange Online Kiosk Plan: project professional 2007 is adding Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) support for mobile devices to the present Exchange Online Kiosk plan. Currently, users with which plan only have TAKE mail capabilities. “With this change, we will enable all smartphones that help EAS, including iPhone, Andriod phones, Nokia phones (Symbian), and Windows phones, ” Osgaard blogged.

E-mail storage space: Microsoft is doubling e-mail storage space for K plan users from 500 MB to 1 GB.

Exchange Online Archiving: Microsoft is going to be enabling “Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) which include legal hold and unlimited storage, to be offered for an add-on to any Change Online plan, including Kiosk and Exchange Plan 1, ” 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 available updates across Office 365 on a quarterly basis, with the latest batch of updates hitting afre the wedding of 2011. Microsoft is believed to have sold for longer than 5 million Office 365 seats, 90 percent of that create gone to small establishments.

Office 365 is this Microsoft-hosted bundle of Change Online, SharePoint Online together with Lync Online that Ms launched in late June 2010. It is regarded as being Microsoft’s alternative to Yahoo Apps. The Kiosk arrange for Office 365 currently will start at $2 per user each and every month. I have a question in to the Office 365 team to the timing and whether you will have any pricing changes as a consequence of these new features.

Bring up to date: Microsoft officials are not commenting on in the event the new features will be turned on. However, one Office 365 MVP, Loryan Strant, said this will happen globally “around Mar 2012. ” Microsoft officials did say that new features will be part of both Exchange Online K and Office 365 Nited kingdom, with prices remaining at $2 per user each and every month, and $4 per user each and every month, respectively.