[nabs-l] The Cloud was Re: Accessibility of Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google apps for Education

[Joshua Lester]

Thanks for the explanation.


On 4/15/12, Nicole B. Torcolini at Home <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
> Doing stuff in the cloud is doing stuff over the internet and networks
> rather than on local machines. Sharing things on dropbox and Google docs is
> doing stuff in the cloud. Google now has a laptop that does not have
> anything much on the local machine, almost everything is on the internet.
> There are pros and cons to doing stuff in the cloud. In a nut shell, it is
> nice because you can access it from different machines, but it can be
> dangerous if there is not adequate security, and it can be no good if you
> don't have access to the internet.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Lester" <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 6:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Accessibility of Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google apps
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>> Wow!
>> It appears, that I have to jump in here!
>> I was listening to the highlights, from past conventions, yesterday,
>> when I first heard of "The Cloud."
>> Then, you mentioned it, on this thread.
>> I must be behind times, so what is "the Cloud?"
>> Thanks, Joshua
>>
>> On 4/15/12, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
>>> Office 365 is Microsoft Office in the Cloud.  We use MS Office 365
>>> for e-mail where I work -- and I can see no difference between it and
>>> the client-server version of Outlook we previously used.
>>>
>>> I can't speak to other Office 365 programs, as we have just converted
>>> Mail, but it works well.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> At 08:44 PM 4/13/2012, you wrote:
>>>>Hi Arielle,
>>>>
>>>>I've never heard of Office 365, but I assume from its name that it's a
>>>>version of Microsoft Office, which means it would have Microsoft Outlook.
>>>>
>>>>I
>>>>used the Gmail Web site for a long time, and it was pretty accessible in
>>>> the
>>>>basic HTML mode. However, the problem with basic HTML was it had
>>>>something
>>>>like only 40 percent of the features offered in the standard view, which
>>>>isn't accessible. So, I would recommend Office for your purposes, but if
>>>> you
>>>>only want the basic features of email (send email, receive email, reply,
>>>>forward, etc,) you could use the Gmail Web site. However, overall, I'm
>>>>finding Outlook more efficient the more I use it.
>>>>
>>>>Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>>Chris
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>>> Behalf
>>>>Of Arielle Silverman
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:46 PM
>>>>To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>>>>Subject: [nabs-l] Accessibility of Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google apps
>>>>for
>>>>Education
>>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>I got an email from my university's IT office asking students for
>>>>feedback
>>>>on which email platform to use in the future: Google Apps or Microsoft
>>>>Office 365. I know that Gmail is accessible but many of the other Google
>>>>apps are not yet; however I know nothing about MS-Office 365. I would
>>>>like
>>>>to give my university accurate suggestions about accessibility of the two
>>>>platforms. Could any of you advise me as to whether Office 365 is
>>>> accessible
>>>>and/or whether we should expect real improvements in the accessibility of
>>>>Google apps in the near future?
>>>>Best,
>>>>Arielle
>>>
>>>
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