Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 now hold the UK Government's recently launched "OFFICIAL" accreditation. What does that mean? It means that Microsoft Azure, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service cloud computing platform, and Office 365, Microsoft's public cloud productivity suite for e-mail, collaboration and unified communications, are now accredited to hold or transact public sector data for business conducted at the OFFICIAL level of Security Classification.