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A generic question about Office 365
Interesting question, I think you are on the right track. My understanding is most new features are born in the cloud and don't correlate with any on-premise equivalent. Exchange Online isn't just Exchange Server 2016 with a slightly different build. There is some crossover with features of course (and a shared codebase) but Office 365 is way ahead of what Microsoft ship to on-premise customers. Some Office 365 features might get shipped in the next on-premise version like Exchange Server 2016 but lots of features are increasingly only available in Office 365. One example I can think of is Focused Inbox, which only applies to Office 365 Exchange Online tenants and users. Microsoft touched on some of these topics with this article - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wbaer/2017/05/16/sharepoint-server-2016-and-beyond/.
Interesting question, I think you are on the right track. My understanding is most new features are born in the cloud and don't correlate with any on-premise equivalent. Exchange Online isn't just Exchange Server 2016 with a slightly different build. There is some crossover with features of course (and a shared codebase) but Office 365 is way ahead of what Microsoft ship to on-premise customers. Some Office 365 features might get shipped in the next on-premise version like Exchange Server 2016 but lots of features are increasingly only available in Office 365. One example I can think of is Focused Inbox, which only applies to Office 365 Exchange Online tenants and users. Microsoft touched on some of these topics with this article - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wbaer/2017/05/16/sharepoint-server-2016-and-beyond/.
Cian Allner....Thanks Cian