21Vianet Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNET), the largest carrier-neutral internet data center services provider in China, today announced that Office 365 services operated by 21Vianet are now generally available to all paying customers in China, delivering for the first time the familiar Office productivity suite, now equipped with more advanced communication and collaboration tools, as a local cloud service to business and government customers throughout China.
Office 365 is Microsoft’s fastest-growing commercial product ever; 20,000 customers have already tried Microsoft Office 365 services in China since its public preview in August 2013 including private enterprises, government organizations, and education institutions. Additionally, many large enterprises and government organizations have signed up for the services as paying customers including Shanghai, Wenzhou and Xi’an city governments.