Microsoft Just Made Its Google Apps Killer Much More Attractive (MSFT)

Monday, October 27, 2014
microsoft and Google are in a price war over your office documents — and microsoft just took a big swing. microsoft says it is giving away unlimited storage to customers who buy the cloud version of its microsoft Office software, called "Office 365." This one-ups what Google is doing with its paid versions of Google Drive, called Google Drive for Work. Google Drive for Work costs as little as $5/user/month and restricts you to 30 gigabytes of online storage. For $10/user/month, you get 1 terabyte of online storage, until you add 6 people to the account ($60/month) and then storage is unlimited. To be fair, the paid versions of Google Drive are really geared toward business users, and businesses are biting. Google recently said it is signing up 1,800 new customers a week for the service. But microsoft is doing well attracting consumers to Office 365, too. microsoft launched Office 365 in early 2013, adding support for the iPad early in 2014. microsoft now has 7 million customers for the product, the company said last week , and grew by 25% last quarter alone. For those buying microsoft Office for personal or family use, Office 365 is arguably a better deal than a paid version of Google Apps. For the $6/month "Personal" version of Office 365, you'll get one account that has now has unlimited storage, plus copies of the microsoft Office software that runs on your PC (Mac or Windows) and a tablet (iPad or Windows), for offline usage. ...

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