| | June 201619CIOReviewThe Post-Office GenerationBy Ryan Byrd, CIO & VP-Engineering, EntrataIt's no secret that Google completely revolutionized the workplace with their browser-based email offering (Gmail) back in 2004. An incredible six years later, in 2010, Microsoft followed suit with Office 365. But by that time, it had become a fait accompli that email should be done in a vendor-agnostic browser or in a tablet/smartphone app and not in a standalone client like Outlook. Gone was the tolerance for required .NET plug-ins or any sluggishness in performance.Today's mobile workforce demands 24/7/365 quick access to their email from all of their devices, both at home and at work. There is no patience for an Exchange server upgrade, or for problems with emails not syncing between Outlook on a PC and on a mobile device. Since their beta launches twelve years ago, Google has progressively chipped away at the Microsoft Office foundation with their competitive offerings like Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides. Passing around a Word document back and forth over email to group edit only to find several conflicting versions were created? 2000 and late! Instead share the Google document with your collaborators and edit simultaneously, with all CIO INSIGHTS
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