Google offering free Apps for Work to some customers
Google announced on Monday that it will offer its Apps for Work suite free to businesses currently locked into agreements with other office software vendors. Normally, businesses pay $5 per user per month for a basic version of Apps for Work or $10 per user per month for one with more advanced features, such as increased storage and an email archive. The free trial may grab some attention, but Ross MacMillan, Microsoft analyst with RBC Capital Markets in New York, doubts it “will have material impact” on Google’s biggest enterprise competitor, Microsoft Corp. During the fourth quarter of 2015, Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 Commercial, a competitor to Google’s App product, saw its user base grow 74 percent from the previous year, and it was adopted by 50,000 new small businesses per month during the fiscal year, according to a Microsoft spokesperson. The cost for Office 365 Commercial ranges from $5 per user per month to $12.50 per user per month, depending on the features.
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