Microsoft is also making more than 30 new updates to Office 365 to enhance collaboration and communication, and for SkyDrive, adding simple app-centric sharing for Office, powerful file management and easier uploads with HTML5 based largely on customer feedback. Key new features and enhancements include the following:

Here’s a brief listing of the improvements to Office 365 since its global release on June 28:
Office Web Apps

Preview Office attachments from within Outlook Web App

• Clip-art support in PowerPoint Web App
• Printing
• Additional browser support
• Improved shape editing and theme usage

Connected Account improvements in Exchange Online (more options to pull email from mailboxes outside Office 365)
SharePoint Online support for Google’s Chrome browser
Improved experience when using Windows Phone 7.5 (of course)
The ability to connect to databases from SharePoint Online via Business Connectivity Services
Self-service for SharePoint Online site collection restoration
The ability to invite external users (not on Office 365) to collaborate within your SharePoint Online environment (Windows Live ID is required)
Self-service for basic support issues via DIY troubleshooting tool
Support for Active Directory synchronisation on 64-bit architectures
Improvements for client access control (eg. blocking access to features)
Additional information and simplified process to add domains to Office 365
Support for Mac OS X Lion
Lync for Mac 2011 client released. Download and get the information here.
Self-service for administrator password reset

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