Google Docs vs Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft’s decision to launch Office 365 a few days ago represented the company’s effort to get a slice of the enterprise cloud computing pie. But for executives and travelling business folk, it meant something simpler - the option to use the popular MS Office suite (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint) from any computer, using what the software giant calls its Office Web Apps.

Here, however, it faces some very stiff competition from Google Docs, which has pretty much been the go-to application for anybody wanting to work on a productivity suite online.




We took both Google Docs and the office suite portion of Office 365 for a short swing online and here is what we found out