Sizing up the Free MS Word in the Cloud as a Small Business Solution

Documents are arguably the lifeblood of any construction, architecture and engineering business. Most businesses use some kind of office suite of products that have word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs. They run either on individual machines or on the company’s server. Until recently, that was the only way these programs were available and they came with a price tag that was never ending – you had to upgrade at regular intervals and if you didn’t you’d be sacrificing security or interoperability.

Now, you can do your document creation in the cloud and there are several free word processing offerings. For this post I’m going to focus on the free cloud version of Microsoft Word, and then in subsequent posts I’ll share my views on the other free word processing offerings currently available in the cloud.  Keep in mind, I’m reviewing these from the perspective of very small businesses that might want to start moving their document creation and document sharing to the cloud. There are plenty of robust offerings for large enterprises and those are covered in other places on this blog.

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