As cloud hosting becomes a staple of law firm and in-house legal department technology strategies, a few power hitters have risen to the top of the heap. Perhaps as no surprise, forefront among those top players are Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s G-Suite.
Microsoft and Google both offer software alongside data storage in their respective cloud offerings. Support for tool integration and real-time collaboration seem to distinguish one offering from the other.
Traditionally, Microsoft’s software has been favored in the legal community, where Word, Outlook and Excel have become shorthand for “word processor,” “email” and “spreadsheet manager.” Even as Microsoft has begun moving its Office Suite from a licensing, on-premise model to its monthly subscription Office 365 cloud model, legal organizations have stuck with it.
