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that said, the m$ tools are out in full force this week, aren’t they?

In order to compare apple to apples:
MS Business Productivity Online Suite = $180/user/year vs Google Apps = $50/seat/year

We use Office only because our old bosses don’t get the Cloud and it does require a more agile partner community but make no doubt this shift is happening right now and it is just going to gain momentum.

Google, Amazon, and Salesforce are the new big boys on the block. Disruptive technologies by definition first grow in the least profitable customer base but this trend is going to take the enterprise by storm.

As an end user I can’t wait until I can stop waiting for Outlook and Word to boot up just so I can do my job.

Office isn’t multitenant. It won’t be multitenant in the 2010 version. Just because MSFT builds data centers and hosts Office doesn’t make Office a cloud app.

Is it reasonable to think just because Office is so popular now it always will be … most end users don’t even know what the h*ll we’re even talking about. Google Apps is cheaper and provides a better user experience.

Change is good. Don’t be scared. Get your head in the clouds and enjoy.

Will gApps cause Microsoft to act differently? Most assuredly; it’s in their nature to seek out competitors and pummel them into the ground. But I wouldn’t mistake their latency in getting into enterprise-class cloud computing as a sign of failure. Rather, with hundreds of millions of users and hundreds of thousands of customers that depend daily on their platform, there’s a higher bar for them than Google, and dumping things into the online domain with a Beta moniker slapped on them and thinking that’s ok.

The bottom line: I’m still waiting for any of these companies that have licensed gApps to truly demonstrate cost savings over time, end user productivity gains, and positive impact to their ability to be competitive in their markets.

It’s not about hating Google or loving Microsoft. It’s about holding both companies accountable for demonstrating ROI, TCO, etc. and to date Google has been getting a pass.

Next year, when MS will unviel MS Office 2010 with Online Version many people will just forget about Google or Open Office.

But at the same time I’m doing intergration between Office 2003/2007 and Google Docs (www.upriseapps.com) , b/c I believe that these is no be a majority of those who’ll move to Office 2010 imidiatelly after release.