Google’s Offline Blunder

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Alex — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:50:48 GMT

It's interesting on the comments here asking Microsoft to have a browser offline client when they have fully functional offline productivity for decades. It shows how Google users will accept almost any sort of poor solution and herald it as innovative.

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Rich Prescott — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:34:07 GMT

Tony,

To echo Trevor's comment, this blog is called Why Microsoft. It should promote the positive aspects of Microsoft and why people should choose Microsoft. Lately, it seems to have turned into a Why Not Google blog. Microsoft has more than enough positive aspects that could and should be brought out to the community and this blog seems like it was made for that.

-Rich

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Tony Tai - MSFT — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:19:46 GMT

@Kunal: I couldn’t have said it better. In fact, 9 out of 10 Google Apps customers use Office, as well. (http://bit.ly/jbB4of) Now, with Office 365 business users have the best productivity experience both online and offline.

@Ian: Thank you for pointing out that the Chrome statistics referenced now includes August figures. We were pointing to the July figures when we posted the blog. It looks like Google has done a good job in getting people to upgrade to the newer versions of Chrome.

re: Google’s Offline Blunder

Ian Ray — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:15:16 GMT

"First of all, the new offline solution requires Chrome 13 or higher, which is only usable for an estimated 2% of browser users."

Tony, you made a typo there. The link you posted to back up the estimated 2% says Chrome 13+14 is 22.2% usage.

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Kunal Nanda — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:38:38 GMT

Funny that people are asking MS to prove themselves. They already have. And its called Microsoft Office. Microsoft's point is clear, if you want the best Office tools then get MS Office. Google's offerings pale in comparison.

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Mikhail — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:51:16 GMT

@Richard Turner - please show us some examples instead of being sarcastic! What is the Google equivalent of competitor bashing and FUD spreading "Why Microsoft"?

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Richard Turner [Bitcrazed] — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:51:14 GMT

@Pedro - you never hear Google "blaming" Microsoft??? Seriously?

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the google bee — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:44:49 GMT

on the "web" side of it, Microsoft hasn't exactly been the most competent. remember the persistent downtime issues bpos/office 365 has faced? also, the biggest champion of the cloud currently is steve ballmer.

http://googleappsbuzz.com

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Pedro — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:10:46 GMT

Fully agree with Trevor. Nevertheless, why MS is always blaming on Google and we never hear Google blaming on MS? Better look inside and try to solve the weaknessess of MS new 365...

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Olav Tvedt — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:55:46 GMT

Well you can use any free mail client to do it!