On: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

[grandalf]

This is pretty cool but I'd still prefer to use Google Apps and Gmail. The MS office web apps are pretty poor in comparison and unless you're a dedicated windows shop or have a lot of ex-finance people there is little benefit to the office suite.

[bratsche → grandalf]

But you also get access to the non-web versions of the office apps, which are not poor.

[grandalf → bratsche]

True if you're in the 1% of users who need features that go beyond what Google Apps does and prefer to manually deal with the versioning mess using some ad-hoc convention.