Office 2010 vs. Google Docs updates
Summary: I haven't made any secret of love for Office 2010. At the same time, Google Docs remains my tool of choice for all of my basic documentation, note-taking, collaboration, sharing, and writing.
I haven't made any secret of love for Office 2010. At the same time, Google Docs remains my tool of choice for all of my basic documentation, note-taking, collaboration, sharing, and writing. As I've said before, it's all about what you need, where, and when. That being said, are there some clear advantages or disadvantages to either suite? Check out the gallery below for some direct comparisons.
The basic idea, though? If you want access to all of your documents natively and automatically from any web-connected browser, then Docs is king. If you need publication-quality documents (plus really sophisticated spreadsheets, databases, and other software), Office has you covered.
In many cases, it's far more important to me for my notes and writing to be available wherever I might be, regardless of the computer at which I'm sitting. Microsoft would argue that Office Live Web Apps would largely enable this same anytime, anywhere access, but Google Apps simply does a better job of letting you create, interact with, collaborate on, edit, and share your documents from anywhere on the Net (and increasingly, from HTML 5-compliant phones). That isn't the case for everyone and it isn't the case for me all the time. Take a look at the gallery and let me know if I missed any big ticket items. While you're at it, let me know if Apps is enough.
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Office 2010 may have an edge feature-wise but $$$ rule
City of Los Angeles opts to contract for five years with Google Apps for email: $7.5M
And they get all of Google Apps features included.
How much would that cost otherwise with MS?: Too much to bear in a recession.
Quite simply Google Apps combined with local OpenOffice.org is a hard combination to beat when it comes to fiscal responsibility.
I think I can afford $9 for Office 2010.
$9 ?? where can I get it
brent at brentjones.org
Office 2010 Starter will be free...
Mine's $9, via MS HUP
Oh, and I also got Project Standard and Visio Professional for $9 each as well.
They are all direct-download versions. I [b]think[/b] I can get a backup copy on DVD for $5 extra.
And I'll get Office 2010, when it becomes a general release, for the same price.
But there are conditions for the $9 version
Isn't this
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Great thoughts! I'm with you on the Docs for constant access and sharing, no matter what computer I'm using. At first I thought Dropbox might implement this, but Google Docs just seem way more user friendly.
- Mariah Hibarger
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If availability is king then Docs is indispensable, or at least a Private DNS that you can upload a repository to.
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it as a collaborating tool and it's really amazing the
way a team can actually work on one document at the same
time and in "real time".
collaboration
Docs...
E.g. a spreadsheet, my team (6 of us) are now
working on one Google Spreadsheet with several
tabs, all at the same time...
...or the Excel Web App
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