Comments on: Microsoft Office Live vs. Google Apps

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:16:31 +0000

This sure answers my question about live office. It was unclear if I needed office, or if I could get everything online.
Now I know why it does not work.

By: fraymond

fraymond — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:39:23 +0000

Nice comparison. Here’s a similar comparison of the two apps, more focusing on the creation of websites in both apps.

http://geekatwork.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/google-apps-vs-microsoft-office-live/

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:25:43 +0000

I use MS Office Live Small Business, but I have tried Google Apps demos and such, from what I have seen MS keeps altering the price of their domain registration. It’s up to $15 a year, which is still cheap, but when it first started it was at around $10. Also, MS Office has an issue that pops up error messages on your business site when using IE and will only let you work on your site from IE or Firefox. Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc are all left out of it. After using both, I wish I had just went with Google Apps. It is far superior on Technology except that you cannot use Google Adsense on your Google Site as of yet. Your Google Site is more customizable than the MS Office Live Small Business Site as well.

By: Add a blog to your company site using Office Live Small Business - Workspace Team - Office Live Small Business Community

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:26:48 +0000

[...] this week, Rich Menga at PCMech wrote an article comparing Office Live Small Business to Google Apps. While I thought the article was very fair, it [...]

By: Mortgage Modification

Mortgage Modification — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:09:45 +0000

I have been using google apps and have loved it however, I just bought some dells and they gave me a “free” microsoft office live account. Now by reading this article, I’m tempted to see what Microsoft has to offer. The only thing that concerns me is that if you have to use Office to do documents thats going to be a problem…. Oh well I’m going to test microsofts system with another company and see how it works. Thanks for the article

By: Correction: Microsoft Office Live Does Do Blogs | PCMech

Correction: Microsoft Office Live *Does* Do Blogs | PCMech — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:08:59 +0000

[...] Monday I wrote an article about Office Live and Google Apps. In that aricle I said: Neither has any blogging capability [...]

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:37:12 +0000

A-ha! Very cool on the Spaces stuff. Will definitely be checking that out for myself to see how it works out. Very nice, thanks for the response.

By: Louise Rasho

Louise Rasho — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:07:52 +0000

Hi there Rich. Thank you very much for reviewing the Microsoft Office Live Small Business service. We really appreciate feedback from customers and the industry and take it to heart as we work to continuously improve the service.

One thing I did want to clarify is that we do in fact provide the ability to integrate a Live Spaces blog into your company’s Web site using Office Live Small Business. We have both an article as well as a demo that explain the simple steps to do this:
Article
http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA102369111033&ns=OFLV20&lcid=1033

Demo
http://officeliveoffers.com/demos/smallbusiness/AddAVideoOrBlog/default.htm

You can also check out our example site to see what this would look like:
http://adventure-works2.com/blog.aspx

Thanks again!

Louise Rasho
Microsoft Office Live Small Business

By: Sharron (kkomp)

Sharron (kkomp) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:27:58 +0000

That was very concise and well covered in the limited space and time available: Good show Rich!