The July 16, 2012 Wall Street Journal (I bought the paper, so I don't have a link) headlined Microsoft fighting back against Google incursions. They went to great lengths to show the efforts Microsoft is taking to keep customers, including flying IT guys to their headquarters to impress them with all of their new projects coming online. Microsoft is slashing costs, developing special sales teams, and talking tough.
Reading further, however, reveals that that the IT man flown to Microsoft still chose Google Apps. 2 reasons, savings, BIG SAVINGS!, and "Google is cool".
Closer inspection of the article shows Google Apps is winning 1/3 of new business, far greater than the experts prediction of 20%.
I switched to Google for all my documentation when, after losing dozens of sermons because of incompatibility of Microsoft Operating Systems, I decided to transfer all my sermons and writing to Google Docs. This was in 2009.
I was already impressed with Google because their search could find scriptures more accurately and quickly than Bible websites could.
I later switched from Hotmail to gmail totally when my Hotmail account was hacked and all my friends were being sent pornographic links.
I also started backing up all my photos and then later downloaded my photos first to Picasa when I learned Google automatically and immediately backs up all it's data in a different region.
I started to blog on Google's blogspot rather than Facebook because Google offered larger print size, more editing power, and showed me how to monetize my blog (that's a fancy word for make money).
Google also made massive efforts to tie all their products together seamlessly, so that I could move from one product (like Gmail) to another (like Blogger) seamlessly and effortlessly.
The only surprise I have in reading the article Microsoft Hits Back as Google Muscles In is why it took so long for The Wall Street Journal to write this article.
Reading further, however, reveals that that the IT man flown to Microsoft still chose Google Apps. 2 reasons, savings, BIG SAVINGS!, and "Google is cool".
Closer inspection of the article shows Google Apps is winning 1/3 of new business, far greater than the experts prediction of 20%.
I switched to Google for all my documentation when, after losing dozens of sermons because of incompatibility of Microsoft Operating Systems, I decided to transfer all my sermons and writing to Google Docs. This was in 2009.
I was already impressed with Google because their search could find scriptures more accurately and quickly than Bible websites could.
I later switched from Hotmail to gmail totally when my Hotmail account was hacked and all my friends were being sent pornographic links.
I also started backing up all my photos and then later downloaded my photos first to Picasa when I learned Google automatically and immediately backs up all it's data in a different region.
I started to blog on Google's blogspot rather than Facebook because Google offered larger print size, more editing power, and showed me how to monetize my blog (that's a fancy word for make money).
Google also made massive efforts to tie all their products together seamlessly, so that I could move from one product (like Gmail) to another (like Blogger) seamlessly and effortlessly.
The only surprise I have in reading the article Microsoft Hits Back as Google Muscles In is why it took so long for The Wall Street Journal to write this article.
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