MICROSOFT AND GOOGLE SQUARE OFF IN HOSTED APPS

摘要

THE RIVALRY BETWEEN Google Inc. and Microsoft in the nascent online applications battle has stepped up a notch. In a move to bolster its Software plus Services (S+S) strategy, Microsoft earlier this month released betas of its Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Web services, as well as Office Live Workspace, an online suite of tools enabling collaboration. Looking to upstage Microsoft on the eve of the SharePoint Information Worker conference, Google launched Google Sites, which observers are touting as a "SharePoint killer."