The new Office 365 Service Descriptions can be easily accessed in your favorite browser; just type office365sd.com in the address box, and you'll get a full list of service descriptions . Each service description will give you tables comparing features across plans, making it easier to pick...

Dynamics CRM is at its heart an ASP.net web application built and deployed on Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL Server. Its available for you to run in your own datacenter (CRM On-Premises) or to consume out of Microsoft's public cloud ( CRM Online / multi-tenancy model...

if you want the full enterprise voice experience as well as the benefits of the public cloud, then the Office 365 E4 service plan might be the right plan for you. In plan E4 Microsoft will provide the online versions of SharePoint and Exchange for you, but you must run your Lync Server either on-premises...

In my meetings with customers and partners I'm often asked which SharePoint Online features are found in which Office 365 Service Plans. Its possible to find a high-level comparison here (see screen shot below), but to provide a more granular view I've compiled six tables corresponding to each of...

Office 365 was recently awarded the best Cloud Application of 2011 by CRN, who "found it to be uber-flexible and compelling. It’s the real deal, and it blows away Google Apps " Many of our customers have gone through competitive evaluations and then selected the Microsoft Cloud. Each customer...

More and more people are looking at sharing or storing Word documents in the cloud, be it the Microsoft cloud or other vendors cloud, e.g. Google Documents. Of course it is important that an existing Word documents from a users desktop look identical when the user share it in the cloud. To test...

If you think the answer to the question "Is Office 365 more expensive than Google Apps" is "Yes" (and many people do), you might want to read this white paper . You'll find that many of the elements included in the Office 365 service (e.g AV/AS) is extras in Google Apps:

If you are looking for a comparison between the P1 plan and the E plans in Office 365 you might find this table of notes helpful. Please note that the table is without responsibility. It is compiled by myself and might not be accurate at the time you read it (things change). It should only be used...