2012年科技大勢(shì)預(yù)測(cè)

谷歌微軟一決雌雄

????越來(lái)越多的企業(yè)為了削減成本正尋求依托于云計(jì)算的解決方案。因此，企業(yè)甚至開始外包我們處理工作任務(wù)時(shí)采用的基本效能工具，諸如電子郵件、文字處理和演示工具，這一點(diǎn)顯然也符合邏輯。谷歌（Google）應(yīng)用軟件和微軟Office 365之類的產(chǎn)品組件由此應(yīng)運(yùn)而生。這兩種產(chǎn)品都具有網(wǎng)絡(luò)信息傳送和合作方面的獨(dú)特優(yōu)勢(shì)，同時(shí)免去了附加硬件、軟件安裝方面的困擾，此外，企業(yè)不需要專門配備內(nèi)部的IT員工，而且價(jià)格只是傳統(tǒng)方式的一個(gè)零頭。(實(shí)際上，谷歌表示這種解決方案的成本要比傳統(tǒng)解決方案低三分之一。) 谷歌針對(duì)企業(yè)用戶的應(yīng)用軟件于2007年問(wèn)市，而微軟公司（Microsoft）在當(dāng)年進(jìn)入市場(chǎng)的時(shí)間更早。企業(yè)用戶目前正糾結(jié)哪個(gè)解決方案更有利，可以預(yù)見這兩家巨頭之間將會(huì)展開正面交鋒。

Google Apps and Office 365 will duke it out

????With businesses increasingly looking to cloud-based solutions to cut costs, it only seems logical that even our basic productivity tools for tasks like email, word processing and presentations get outsourced. That's where product suites like Google Apps and Microsoft's Office 365 come in. Both offer the distinct advantage of web-based messaging and collaboration without the hassle of additional hardware, software installation, or the need for in-house IT staff, for a fraction of the price. (In fact, Google says theirs costs a third less than traditional solutions.) Though Google Apps for businesses has been around since 2007, Microsoft just got into the game earlier this year. Expect these two titans to clash as companies wrestle over which solution is better for them.