Hintonblogger

Well this is my first post Gilbert Public Schools blog post. I left GPS last week after 6.5 years and took a new job as an Education Program Specialist in the Arizona Department of Education educational technology section. I am sad to leave the great people I worked with at GPS, but am looking forward to the new challenges and opportunities I will have.

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I just got a new PDA phone, an Alltel HTC 6800, and this has prompted a re-evaluation of how I use the Internet, email, and calendaring solutions in this Web 2.0 data-enabled world. The concept of "syncing in the clouds" where data is available online, on the desktop, and on the mobile device in a format that is optimized for each environment (i.e. rich client on the desktop, rich web client, and easy-to-use mobile version) holds tremendous potential (and frustration at times). There are various Web 2.0 companies that provide multiple pieces of my ultimate productivity suite, (Zoho is a great example), but Google and Microsoft are the only ones that offer integrated solutions. My brother has been a long-time proponent of Microsoft's solutions, but I think they have been playing catch-up to the rest, Google especially, but MS seems like they may be clueing into things lately.From my experience here is how the Google-MS office/productivity/collaboration tools offering compares: