Office 365 Vs Google Apps

365 is released today. Feelings on what will end up being the business standard are pretty mixed. Obviously Google wins for cost and smart phone and tablet capability but there's no touching Microsoft in offline editing in excel macro's and what not. HTML5 will allow google apps to be edited offline but not to the extent Office allows.

Pretty interesting comparisons here - http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/windows/reviews/231000492?pgno=1

I almost feel like it's worth while waiting a few months before i make any firm decisions of which way to go, especially once browsers are up to standard.

Played with it in beta briefly, the Office side of it was nicely polished, and the seamless workflow from in the cloud to in your local word.exe was really neat.

$10/mo tho? Ehhh. I'm not inclined to shift away from the huge investment (timewise) in Google Apps infrastructure I get for free (I manage a lot more than one domain), and Outlook sucks balls.

The Sharepoint/website side though? Dear god, a bunch of themes from FrontPage 97? Lol.

Heh, just looked into the release stuff, like Google they offer free service to education institutions. Except the setup is about 57863 times more complicated than Google's is. To start with, you download a 5 page Word document (inside a zip file no less) telling you how to go about it.

Have you set up a trial account kris_b?

It's about as easy to set up as it gets?

I did, I said that above.

But setting up an academic account with a for-real domain and shit? As pain in the arse as I said.

Yeha some of those templates are terrible! Not hard to make it look good though (IMO)

Did you look at the new version of OWA Kris? I think it's slick offers pretty much everything that is in the client in a well thought out manner.

The LYNC integration is awesome too.

But such a fucken disaster to setup and integrate with everything. Took me weeks to get it all going how we wanted it.