Google vs. Microsoft

I recently started a comparison chart between Google and Microsoft. It mainly concerns their cloud offering but I’ve included some old school applications as well. I’ll be updating the post as I learn more about each’s services and add my own thoughts as well. If I’m missing something or if anyone had some thoughts please let me know!

	Google	Microsoft
Free Web Applications	Search Gmail Picasa Maps Sites Google Docs Google Calendar Google Talk N/A Google Video / YouTube Buzz Google Voice	Bing Hotmail Live Photo Gallery Bing Maps N/A Docs.com Live Calendar Live Messenger SkyDrive / Live Mesh N/A N/A N/A
Business Web Applications	Google Apps for Domains Free for first 50 users DocVerse + Office Google Docs Sites / Calendar Gmail Google Voice (TBD)	Office 365 (Closed Beta) $$$$$ On Premise Office 2010 Office Web Apps SharePoint Online Exchange Online Linc Server Online
Platform as a Service	Google App Engine N/A Languages: Java and Python Relation Database: Hosted SQL with GAE for Business Datastore: BigTable Authentication: Integrates with Google Accounts Services: Memcache, Mail, Scheduled Tasks Frameworks: Spring and Django (with mods) N/A	Azure VM from On-Premise (TBD) Languages: C#, VB.NET, IronRuby, IronPython, PHP Relational Database: SQL Azure Datastore: Tables, Blobs, and Queues Authentication: SAML but must be handled by developer Services:  Web Role, Worker Role, AppFabric  Service Bus Frameworks: ASP.NET MVC, PHP Zend Ability to remote login to running instance
Mobile OS	Android	Windows Phone 7
Client OS	Chrome OS (TBD)	Windows 7
Server OS	N/A	Windows 2008 R2 Server
Browser	Chrome	IE 9 Beta
On-Premise Software	N/A	SharePoint Server Exchange Server Linc Server Hyper-V Active Directory SQL Server BizTalk Server
On-Premise Search	Google search appliance	FAST Search for SharePoint

• Update 001 – 12/1/2010: Added Google Search Appliance and FAST Search
• Update 002 – 12/3/2010: Added updates to GAE that Google recently release