Comments on: Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business: Screenshot comparison

By: hairball

hairball — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:14:40 +0000

Your Microsoft Office 365 account comes with a domain name—(eg: contoso.onmicrosoft.com)—but if you have your own domain name already, you can use that domain name with Microsoft Office 365 services too.

By: David M

David M — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:24:09 +0000

Really useful tools, and great comparison. Small businesses are usually better off with something more catered to their specific workflows, though. There’s so many single-purpose apps out there and small businesses try to manage themselves between 3-4 different systems, which is headaches and high monthly costs.

I’ve found it’s better to go with something that integrates all of what we do. WORKetc is what we’re using now, which integrates CRM, projects, billing, time tracking, and a few other tools. Keeping all data online in one system has been extremely beneficial for us, and tracking every aspect of client relationships through one system really helps improve client relationships. They also just recently integrated with google apps, so we have all the functionality of Docs and Gmail, plus WORKetc.

By: Public relations

Public relations — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:13:52 +0000

Just going through the google apps vs office 365 business case at the moment.. Found the 365 beta experience a confusing mess but google only allows max of 2000 emails sent per day which would limit our business so will have to go with 365.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:37:32 +0000

Thanks for the comment, LB. Yes, I should have been clearer that I was uploading and editing a PowerPoint file, and that Google Docs does let you create your own presentations.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:34:23 +0000

Does Office365 allow you to use your own domain name for email addresses?

By: LB

LB — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:09:39 +0000

A few notes.
1. PowerPoint files cannot be uploaded & edited on google docs, but if you create the presentation in google docs you can edit it that way, and you can export to PowerPoint. Just to clarify that you do have full presentation functionality on google docs, just not editing pptx files.

2. Google apps does require a domain to set up, but google docs is available to anyone at all, using a normal email addresss or a gmail address via setting up a google account. The benefit of this is that your google docs will be available for anyone in the world you want to share it with – not just people in your own domain (or subdomain).

3. There is also a competitor in this space that has been out around as long as google docs – zoho, good to check out if you want to compare what is out there.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing what this competition in the cloud computing space brings out.
- lb