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 between Microsoft BPOS and Google Apps offerings. In January of 2010, Microsoft went as far as develop their own version of hosted services comparison named “Fact-Based Comparison of Hosted Services”, comparing Google Apps with Microsoft BPOS.

I wanted to take this opportunity to remind our dear readers that we still offer complimentary copies of our own feature-for-feature comparative analysis document. You can request your copy by contacting us.

Having reviewed Microsoft’s hosted services comparison document, we noticed that some statements made by Microsoft where inaccurate. I have started a discussion by commending on the original post that grow into a dialog with Andrew Kisslo, Sr. Product Manager at Microsoft.

For additional information, visit the original post, and scroll down for comments.

Until next time,

Steve E. Driz