Office 365 Litigation Hold Questions

Our organization is going to Office 365 from Google Apps, and we were trying to figure out the best way to approach legal holds. First of all, I have heard two rumors that I couldn't find a specific answer for.
First, Is litigation hold being deprecated? I have seen claims from other users online saying that they receive this prompt, but we never received such a prompt and it seems to work fine.
Second, we also heard through a random vendor that license agreements only allow 15% of users in an organization to be on Litigation holds. I could not find an account of this anywhere online, either...wasn't sure if this is true.
If the two above criteria are true, what we want to do is have ALL users on our domain to have their email held for 1 year, regardless of if they delete it. Is the Litigation hold the proper option for this, or should we use In-Place
hold or Journaling? Litigation hold seems to work well for us so far (we are in trials with about 20 users), but I wasn't sure if the above claims were valid.

Hi,
You might want to take a look at this blog post from The Exchange Team Blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/12/11/litigation-hold-and-in-place-hold-in-exchange-2013-and-exchange-online.aspx
"In Exchange 2013 and the new Exchange Online, we introduced In-Place Hold, which allows more flexibility in preserving your data. "
But you still can use the Litigation Hold in Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online.
"Litigation Hold isn't going away: Since the release of Exchange 2013 and the new Exchange Online, we've received a lot of questions and feedback from you about whether Litigation Hold
will be removed. We want to clarify that we do not plan to remove Litigation Hold from Exchange Online or Exchange 2013."
The "litigation hold is a deprecated feature" alert has been removed.
"We've removed the alert from Exchange Online and in Exchange
2013 SP1. We've also removed the recommendation from Exchange Online and Exchange 2013 documentation."
Also, this forum focuses on questions and feedback for Microsoft Office client. There is not so much about the Plan/Hosted/Cloud aspects of Office 365. I would suggest you to post in the forum of
Office 365 Community, where you can get more experienced responses:
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/default.aspx
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
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