The key point:

For individual users:

It will be a good choice if transfer Most of the documents and data to online cloud platform, if you are a believers of loud computing/cloud storage, hope completely out of the local application bondage, can choose Google Docs, directly use it to create, edit, and store your data and documentation.

If you still like to use local Office system, can choose local Office + SkyDrive scheme. You can use both former Office, also can use the online storage SkyDrive to solve the data security problems.

The individual user choice should depend on individual taste.

For enterprise users:

For users who has deployed Microsoft’s Domain, Exchange, Office enterprise , completely migrate to Google platform, the cost is too much, migrating smoothly and successfully is also very difficult, so introducing the original scheme SkyDrive is a better choice.

For the newly created small company, it is the company’s office system set up directly to Google platform should be a better choice, no longer need to invest to set up their own server and even data center, also do not need to buy expensive server software, which can greatly reduce the cost of hardware and software, and sharing, cooperation is more flexible and efficient.

At present, in the cloud computing field, Google and Microsoft should be the most optimal influence of the two giant.

Google, as the Internet supremacy, the goal is to eliminate the desktop applications, put all the computing and storage onto the clouds. And Microsoft as a traditional desktop software overlord is also applied to transform to the clouds, so that can be a higher low with Google in the clouds platform.

This article aims mainly at the most important application of the individuals and enterprises, work system, Google and Microsoft’s cloud strategy are discussed and compared, and makes people more intuitive understand the products and difference. The biggest advantage of seting the office system ontto the cloud platform is the users can visit anytime and anywhere, sharing and cooperation, that’s more convenient. In addition, from security point of view, the document storage to Google or Microsoft’s online space, relative to the store to local hard drive can be more security, you don’t need to worry about the collapse of hard drive failure.

Products:

Google: Google Docs, a perfect online Office system, basicly have most of the function of MS Office, and combine with Google’s other products,it can form a very competitive enterprise Office system solutions.

Related products: Google Apps, GMail, Google Calendar, Google Contact

Microsoft: SkyDrive, Microsoft introduced online Office, no installation in MS Office, can use to create online SkyDrive, view, edit and share Office documents. Microsoft introduced SkyDrive purpose is not to replace his own Office, but in order to deal with the challenges from Google.

Functional comparison:

Google Docs: can directly support Document, Spreadsheet, Drawing, and the type of the file create, edit and share, etc. Can support image, PDF, video, audio, and support the OCR recognition, support the overall mobile and upload folder. File search experience is very good (it’s not useless talk yao, Google do!) . Share the function is strong. Loading speed, user experience friendly (only for the outside wall in inside the wall, the user is a tragedy). Another from my personal experience of using terms, Google Docs function updated soon, almost every month will launch a new function. For this product is visible that Google put a resources and manpower.

Now Google Docs has no corresponding official client software, but there is a third party GDocsDrive client. Through this software, users can directly drag a lot of folders to Google Docs

use is very convenient, but at present the tools not support synchronization function.

SkyDrive: can directly edit and create Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files. Google Docs for, relative to the current online application in SkyDrive function, easy to use, integration have inferior. The user experience and Google Docs also have obvious difference.

The biggest advantage is that it can be directly combine SkyDrive and Office 2010, using the local Office users docking editor files, can directly storage SkyDrive to space. Can also from local Office to open directly SkyDrive on the documents. . Believe in the Office of the future version, it will increase more and more cloud factors.

For the enterprise users (Google Apps user), it can be integrated for good and Gmail, Google App domain, Google Calendar, Google Contact. and in the Google Apps Marketplace there are  many third party applications can be chose, so as to form a perfect enterprise solution. This version of Microsoft office scheme relative to the scheme of the largest + Exchange advantage is flexible, low cost, therefore they are very welcome by small and medium enterprise. According to Google says, at present Google Apps enterprise users already has exceeded more than three hundred million, and the number is growing fast. This is also the most headaches for MS, now at the Office system is Microsoft’s biggest cash cow, enterprise Office system is Microsoft relying heavily on the market, but most of the market is being nibbling by Google