Google Apps V/s Microsoft Office Live – a quick comparison
- Saturday, March 8, 2008, 4:26
- Google Apps, Microsoft
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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
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Office Live |
Google Apps |
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Link |
http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/ |
http://www.google.com/a |
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Edition |
Free (Small Business) |
Free (Standard) |
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Services offered |
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Mail |
Yes |
Yes (Gmail) |
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Chat |
No (?) |
Yes (Talk) |
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Calendar |
Yes |
Yes |
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Documents |
Yes (Document Manager) |
Yes (Docs) |
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Web Site |
Yes |
Yes |
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Collaborative Workspace |
Yes (Workspaces) |
Yes (Sites) |
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Contacts Manager |
Yes |
No |
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Project Manager |
Yes |
No |
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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 |
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No of free emails |
Maximum 100 |
Maximum 1000 |
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Mailbox |
?? |
6GB |
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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) |
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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.
About the Author
Siddartha has written 173 stories on this site.
Siddartha is a senior staff writer for TecNerd.com. Siddartha is India based consultant helping organization and people across the world adopt new technologies for day to day business use. Siddartha loves to read fiction and writes regularly as a guest writer on blogs and websites.
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