Last month I wrote a comparison of Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google Apps.  Microsoft 365 had just been released from a beta version and I expected there to be a lot of buzz about the new service.  Office can be considered the “golden boy” of Microsoft’s software line and is trusted by many and with 365 being a cloud based service I could only expect a lot of speculation.  But my intuition failed me.  It seems as if Office 365 has come and gone without much buzz, which made me even more curious about the product.  Was it not living up to expectation?

Microsoft Office 365 was released only a week ago, but it already is getting mixed reviews. As an online based version of Microsoft Office, it initiates the company's plunge into software as a service (SaaS.) 

With Windows 7 as the highest yielding version to date, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer caused quite the stir in the tech world recently with the unveiling of Windows 8.¹ Although it may sound like Microsoft is coming out with yet another update to their famous operating system, this one may break barriers for the company.  The most differentiating feature in Windows 8 is that it will support ARM architecture.

As mentioned in last week’s post, ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) is a more efficient version of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers.)² This means given the correct hardware, Windows 8 ARM has the potential of running faster and using less power all on a physically smaller computer.