Microsoft Starts a fight with Google in the Cloud

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Microsoft made a huge step up in competition with Google in the cloud-computing, by launching Office suite software.

This week, Microsoft has just launched its latest software suite of Office, which includes Outlook and Excel, into the format of the cloud/online. as quoted from Reuters, Thursday (29/6/2011).

Latest Suite software called Office 365, allowing users to use with any device that is connected to the internet.

Google has 40 million users of Google Apps suite, according to the observers has to steal market share from Microsoft customers, with products that are cheaper and effective, rather than having to install the software in advance or set up the server.

Until now, has not said how much the number of their users, but the firm comScore estimated that 750 million users around the world have used the Office.

Current service software demand-for-web has warmed up in the cloud, which continues to grow. The average Office and the Government sector was currently using the software from Microsoft or Google.