Over the past several days, we have reviewed updated pricing and features included with each Office365 plan, from Professionals and Small Business to Enterprise (Plan P). While new prices are competitive, Microsoft is still behind Google Apps offering. Google offers its online productivity suite for $50 per user per year. We...

Today, Computerworld published a good article by Shane O'Neill titled "Why We Chose Exchange Online, Not Google Apps" The author of the article, based on customer testimonials, explains why Winston-Salem selected Microsoft hosted Outlook over Google Apps. While I have touched on this point many times over, for every business...

On January 14th, Google posted Service Level Agreement (SLA) related data as it applies to Google Apps for both business and individual customers. In 2010, Gmail was available 99.984% of the time, which translates into approximately 7 minutes of downtime per month, and basically represents accumulation of small delays...

Today I came across a great article by Chris Crum analyzing new, re-designed Twitter interface and explaining why new interface may attract new users to Twitter, and what are the benefits of using Twitter for business. While Twitter has been around for a while, many businesses and individual still...

As a conclusion following a series of Microsoft BPOS outages over the past several weeks, on September 8th, Microsoft issued a statement on Microsoft Online Services Team Blog apologizing for recent outages that affected customers that use Microsoft hosted services such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. By issuing...

It seems that Microsoft cloud platform, BPOS is not immune to outages and is not as stable as they made us believe having bashed Google for outages associated with Google Apps services. On Monday August 23, 2010, Microsoft cloud services were inaccessible for approximately 2-hours. Read the full story...

Microsoft introduced several updates to free Office Apps. Now when you edit a document in Word, you can print the document without having to open it in the desktop application. Read the full story. Quick Poll

According to Google Apps Team, the following improvements will be rolled out to all Google Apps users in the month of June: Starting on June 16th, 2010, Google will introduce new sharing settings in Google Docs, designed to make sharing easier and to give your users more control over...

Microsoft Online Services – March BPOS Update On Friday March 26, 2010, Microsoft announced to its partners and resellers that Microsoft Online Services were significantly enhanced to provide BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) and Exchange Online Standard users with much larger mailboxes, increased number of SharePoint site collections, simplified...

As SaaS space heats-up, both Microsoft and Google are not wasting their time and put a ton of effort on developing additional features for their respective hosted offerings – Microsoft BPOS and Google Apps. In a blog post by Barb Mosher of CMS Wire, she speaks about increasing competition...