<p>The first day of Microsoft's 2014 SharePoint conference in Las Vegas unveiled a slew of new products and services, as well as detailing elements of Microsoft's cloud and on-premises productivity roadmaps. But what more fascinating was what those announcements showed about Microsoft's -- and in particular Office's -- devices and services future.</p><p>Take for example the plans to deliver of OneDrive for Business as a separate service from the full Office 365 suite of servers and services. While Office 365 subscribers carry on with a bundled service, if you're planning on keeping Office on-premises, you can now still use Microsoft's cloud enterprise storage tools (and the cloud-hosted Office Online) to give users 25GB of storage each along with collaboration tools.</p><p>Decoupling OneDrive for Business is possible because Office is a service. There's no need to change the code, or even the underlying authentication tools. It still uses the same sync tooling as the Office 365 version, and it still uses Azure Active Directory for authentication -- and it's still SharePoint Online underneath, albeit with a more constrained user experience. Microsoft has merely put a new UI on the existing services, giving it a new product line without having to make changes to the underlying software.</p><p>Ultimate cloud speed tests: Amazon vs Google vs Windows Azure</p><p><a href="http://www.citeworld.com/cloud/23057/microsoft-office-devices-services">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/03/03/microsoft-makes-the-office-365-android-sdk-available-for-download/">Microsoft Makes The Office 365 Android SDK Available For Download</a> (Android Police)</p><p><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2332131/microsoft-office-365-gets-sociable-with-office-graph-feature">Microsoft Office 365 gets sociable with &#039;Office Graph&#039; feature</a> (Inquirer)</p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2103145/microsoft-debuts-office-graph-in-major-update-to-office-365.html">Microsoft debuts &#039;Office Graph&#039; in major update to Office 365</a> (PCWorld (blog))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dLw5t4DUYixv8bM7AkCrvb86XPxqM&authuser=0&ned=us">148 additional articles.</a></p>