Foreword

Whether Microsoft likes it or not, thousands of people are moving from office applications on their own computers to free, collaborative applications in the cloud. In the arena of Internet-based cloud applications, no company has made a bigger splash of late than Google and the offering featured in this book: Google Apps.

With Google Apps, you can create websites, email accounts, and calendars for your business or organization under the umbrella of your own customized domain name. You can write documents, build spreadsheets, and use instant messaging—all done collaboratively with other users. And you can do all this with no investment in infrastructure on the backend and simple Internet-connected web browsers on the frontend.

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