Toda a propaganda que a Microsoft faz contra alguém me faz pensar “nossa os caras estão desesperados mesmos” e mesmo com o Windows Phone 7 com menos de 1% do mercado de eles ainda vão lançar o Windows 8 com aquele tal de “Metrô” (URG).
Eu não sou muito chegado aos produtos da Apple, mas devo admitir que pelo menos ela investe no caminho certo, consolidando o seu sistema operacional que fica cada dia mais apetitoso ao meu ver.
@Launa, @Monica, @Sash: I’m glad you see these points.
@Becky: Yes, while Office 365 includes Exchange Online, you may not have heard that Office 365 includes SharePoint Online for document sharing and collaboration, Lync Online for IM, presence and conferencing, and Office Web Apps. In discussing alternate email implementations, Matt Cain of Gartner states: “Organizations are also looking for systems with the ability to meet specific security, content control and application integration needs.” (http://bit.ly/tPu10a). Unlike other cloud providers, Microsoft offers a range of Office 365 packages (http://bit.ly/xO5jav) so an organization can suit their specific needs.
Through Office 365 customers can enable the best cloud security today (http://bit.ly/vZ6bNj), use the best communications today (http://bit.ly/qkrVmc), and work with a trusted provider which shares its cloud practices very publicly, including where your data resides, who can access it and what we do with it (http://bit.ly/zgxl2F). We know in speaking with customers that companies which have invested in fluency with tools are not typically interested in a "rip and replace" approach, wholly abandoning investments which help them daily. Many Office 365 customers are small businesses (http://bit.ly/omcbco) leveraging Office 365 in part because of its value and wide range of capabilities. Enterprises (http://bit.ly/xRbO1O) are attracted to the Office 365 E plan which includes Office Professional Plus, as well as the flexibility, potential savings (http://bit.ly/wcoWq4), capabilities and value coming from cloud deployment in Office 365.
You might not know that Office is based on the OpenXML standard. Also, Office is also the largest deployment for the ODF standard, which public sector clients commonly require. Google Docs, on the other hand, is based on a proprietary standard.
+1 Becky...Tony, you are kind of proving her point. See, Google integration "just is", you activate Google, and it just works. With Office 365, you (you meaning Microsoft) have to get the integration working between the different platforms; Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, etc. Google implementations are not a "rip and replace", as you suggest, no more than your transition from BPOS is to Office 365; now that is a rip and replace. In fact, during a Google transition, you can set up full mail synchronization and mail delivery. There are also lots of customers that run both Google and Exchange just fine. I constantly feel like Microsoft just doesn't get it...again...
@Derik: Here is how to get started with Office 365: http://bit.ly/yj3ckb . Unlike with Office 365, Google Apps users often find that they are tripped up having to install third party tools and add-ins to arrive at a complete productivity solution. Google Apps $50/per user/year price tag doesn’t seem like a strong value. Google Apps for business is missing critical features and functionality that you get at no additional cost with Microsoft products. Adding those missing features and functionality can cost you more for deployment, IT support, user training and lost productivity. Google customers need to acquire tools such as WebEx to videoconference with more than 4 people. Its cost is $468 per user per year (http://bit.ly/yDvntf). Then, for example, there are one-time costs like the Exchange to Google Apps Migrator at $20 per user (http://bit.ly/xxGLjm), and the Shared Contacts Service at $49-349 per user (http://bit.ly/bTovUF).
Google? Sounds like Microsoft apps...
This is excellence. Finally a good read.
Aren't you forgetting that Microsoft is also doing ads?
I just think that you're losing clients because of Google, you just complimented Google by making this ad, instead of innovating you try to blame someone else.
Nice Google, keep up the good work!
@Tony, see, you just don't get it do you? This is the problem with Microsoft and why Google is eating your lunch. Need I remind you that I worked for Quest Software for 8 years. What is one of their bread and butter businesses? Microsoft Migrations! You forget that nearly everyone has an upfront, one-time cost to implement. Think about GroupWise users, Notes users, etc. Again, look at your own requirements to migrate from BPOS to Office 365; lot's of up front costs there; if there wasn't, why would you have ADMT? Why would Quest be selling millions of dollars in migration tools? Also, why does Microsoft offer customers "Jump Start Funds"? Oh, that's right, to offset the initial cost of implementation :)
I won't address the Webex comment because there are other solutions out there and Google, being the innovator they are, are going to have a answer for that in the very near future.
Awesome. Just awesome. Finally, Microsoft telling it like it is against their competitors. Where have you been Microsoft?
office 365 is nothing compared to Google apps, shame on microsoft on such a pathetic marketing strategy!!!
I've *never* felt productive (much less collaboratively productive) in the silo suite that is MS Office. OTOH, I've never not been productive in google apps...
I can launch outlook, then launch chrome, then load up google mail and process half a dozen messages before outlook finishes bootstrapping and becomes even remotely responsive. It's a dinosaur.
@Anoop: Thanks for the link. Can you pls share some information about the product? Is it like Dropbox?? It says easier than Excel, better than Google Docs. Is the product really that way??
This is just very pathetic from Microsoft. Instead of waisting your time with this kind of propaganda against Google, focus on creating better products.
Microsoft tries to buy your love. Fails. Shuts it down. Thinks up something equally lame. Tries again. Fails again. Repeat.
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