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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Google Apps V/s Microsoft Office Live - a quick comparison

Microsoft has launched Office Live (http://www.officelive.com) applications like Google Apps based on SaaS (Software as a Service) model. I was just comparing the Office Live with Googles Apps and here are some important points:

Links
Office Live: http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/
Googles Apps: http://www.google.com/a

we have done a quick comparison of free editions for small business

Item

Office Live

Google Apps

Link

http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/

http://www.google.com/a

Edition

Free (Small Business)

Free (Standard)

Services offered

Mail

Yes

Yes (Gmail)

Chat

No (?)

Yes (Talk)

Calendar

Yes

Yes

Documents

Yes (Document Manager)

Yes (Docs)

Web Site

Yes

Yes

Collaborative Workspace

Yes (Workspaces)

Yes (Sites)

Contacts Manager

Yes

No

Project Manager

Yes

No

Domain

Free for first year and after that US$ 14.95 (high in longer term) every year

Can purchase domain from partner for US$ 10

No of free emails

Maximum 100

Maximum 1000

Mailbox

??

6GB

Documents

Can store and access online but editing required MS Office (Not an online application just a storage and viewer) so effectively is is not free

Create, Edit, Access and store online (all)

Collaborative Workspace

More stress on editing & sharing documents in collaboration online

More stress on wikis (Document sharing, collaborative editing is available in Google Docs)


Microsoft is facing the heat and is forced to launch this. Well I hope Google will keep up with the competition.

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