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Hotmail: gave it up years ago for GMail. Office 365 (online): tried it out but never really got into it because I like GDocs a lot more. It's terrible that Micr

by egiva 15y ago

Hotmail: gave it up years ago for GMail. Office 365 (online): tried it out but never really got into it because I like GDocs a lot more. It's terrible that Microsoft online services went down, but it's unfortunate that it takes bad news to remind me that those services even exist.

barista 15y ago
Are you sure what you tried was O365? It's so much more than GDocs.
- 51Cards 15y ago
  I have to admit I really like Office365's Excel implementation, it is superior to GDocs Spreadsheet but the package as a whole is still not there... Employees can edit GDocs on their tablets, Android Phones or iPhones with native apps or in the browser. Off365 offers none of these in most cases, requiring either a Win7 phone or a full PC browser client. But the biggest kicker for for us is the ability to simultaneously edit word processing documents. We use this as a white board functionality when working through proposals either separately or on a conference call. Collaborative editing is a very powerful thing and last I saw Off365 only supports it in Excel. I'm not saying that Microsoft isn't putting out a good product, just that they are still way behind GDocs as far as ease of access and core group features that they really need to step it up if they hope to grab back the mind share for online office products.
  - barista 15y ago
    That is probably because tablets only account for a fraction of usage. Besides Microsoft does not have a good tablet story yet. With upcoming Windows 8, hopefully they will get act together and improve touch based accessibility for these products.
    - calloc 15y ago
      I have a bad feeling that they won't improve with Windows 8. The issue at hand is that Microsoft believes Windows 8 should be everything to everyone all at once, and it simply can't. They need to realise that to "win" in the tablet space they need to leave their love child Windows behind and build something that was designed from the ground up for a small form factor tablet device.
      - kooshball 15y ago
        have you seen the demos they shown so far? the metro view in tablet form can be all you ever see. the legacy desktop code doesnt even get loaded. it's similar to what apple did with mac osx and ios, except you have the option of loading either of them.
        barista 15y ago
        I am keeping an eye on the upcoming Build conference. That should have more details for sure.

by egiva 15y ago

barista 15y ago

Are you sure what you tried was O365? It's so much more than GDocs.

51Cards 15y ago
I have to admit I really like Office365's Excel implementation, it is superior to GDocs Spreadsheet but the package as a whole is still not there... Employees can edit GDocs on their tablets, Android Phones or iPhones with native apps or in the browser. Off365 offers none of these in most cases, requiring either a Win7 phone or a full PC browser client. But the biggest kicker for for us is the ability to simultaneously edit word processing documents. We use this as a white board functionality when working through proposals either separately or on a conference call. Collaborative editing is a very powerful thing and last I saw Off365 only supports it in Excel. I'm not saying that Microsoft isn't putting out a good product, just that they are still way behind GDocs as far as ease of access and core group features that they really need to step it up if they hope to grab back the mind share for online office products.
- barista 15y ago
  That is probably because tablets only account for a fraction of usage. Besides Microsoft does not have a good tablet story yet. With upcoming Windows 8, hopefully they will get act together and improve touch based accessibility for these products.
  - calloc 15y ago
    I have a bad feeling that they won't improve with Windows 8. The issue at hand is that Microsoft believes Windows 8 should be everything to everyone all at once, and it simply can't. They need to realise that to "win" in the tablet space they need to leave their love child Windows behind and build something that was designed from the ground up for a small form factor tablet device.
    - kooshball 15y ago
      have you seen the demos they shown so far? the metro view in tablet form can be all you ever see. the legacy desktop code doesnt even get loaded. it's similar to what apple did with mac osx and ios, except you have the option of loading either of them.
      - barista 15y ago
        I am keeping an eye on the upcoming Build conference. That should have more details for sure.