Office 365 versus Google Apps

The Office UI

Office 365 is designeed to work alongside Microsoft's desktop on-premise heritage. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. While Google's apps do a good job of existing "in the cloud" and proving a comparable online version of a desktop client, overall they are arguably less functionality-rich than Office across the board. Microsoft's domination in the productivity applications market - Word, Outlook for e-mail, Excel for spreadsheets, etc - is the ace up its sleeve and the company will play on the "comfort through familiarity" line as much as it can.