I am student of IP university pursuing BCA.
Wanna create a computer club at my college.
I'll be setting up platform for online presence and stuck up b/t google and micorsoft.
I have been using google apps for my personel site.
But since its gonna be on organisation site... i am confused.
Microsoft Office live is attracts me.
Both offers similiar features like live ID-gmail, calenders, meetings, sites, etc,etc ....where to go?
Please advice me!
Ok, I know everybody hates microsoft. So did I until I found out how big an elephant google is. I opened an office live small business account, they give me everything. Free domain, email, space, news feed. I thought I could do better outside. So I asked my domain to be free and released from microsoft. I was getting email reply 6 hrs after I email them. Great customer support. Eventhough microsoft paid for my site registry. THey said it is yours , even we registered it and we paid for it, you are free. So I kept it free from microsoft and was looking for some free host. its kabulmagazine.com which I own now for free.
So I heard a lot of hype about google apps. So I opened an account with 140 words for my webpage url. They say if I want my own url, in order to integrate with my blogs and my google apps, I have to buy domain from them. So I said what's the big deal, just ten dollars and I bought the domain thecarriagehorse.com through google, activated google apps, verified domain ownership and paid to Google with my credit card. After that you would hope to get a short url and get great customer support, comaprable to microsoft if its not better, since one you pay someone you expect support, no matter one dollar or 1000.
I was so disappointed. If you type your webpage address thecarriagehorse.com, it goes to google instead of your own page, google.apps.pages.start/1965&23#/shitlikethat wtc etc, and you see google stuff , non working gadgets etc. The only way you can access your page is making a subdomain, like ww2.thecarriagehorse.com or home.thecarriagehorse.com etc eventhough you own the full domain. You won't get an email link for support even if you have a letter from jesus, they just send you to newsgroups and forums that people ignore your posting and won't reply. The other and most important is email, yes EMAIL, your gmail account is unaccessible unless you login to your domain, you can not type
editor@thecarriagehorse.com in gmail webportal and type your password and read your rmail. You only can access it from your ugly page that google put in your home index.html that you have very little control over. Now if you get microsoft officelive page, like for kabulimagazine.com, I can access it in anypage that millions of people login to their msn.com, hotmail.com, live.com etc and you don't have to login to your domaim, you just type
editor@kabulmagazine.com as your user name thantype password and bingo, you are in. So I asked msn again, can you reactivate my account please back with you and I don't want to host it somewhere else, I got surprised when they emailed me back in two hours at night and said No Problem sir, and I went back, it was working right away.
Those are all personal experience , eventhough I am not microsoft fan, but thruth is truth. Google is using my site, domain I bought to publish anything they want, microsoft respects my ownership to it eventhough they paid for it.
I hope this helps
