SBS hosted exchange is the way to go! You pay a flat fee and get ALL the features you normally would receive with an in house server without the hassle of setup, support and maintenance or especially licenses. For the small guy who doesn't really care about having a shared calendar, synchronized communications, and complete control of their company data and policies then I guess Google is your thing because it's free.
Just remember that in the long run you do get what you pay for! I think exchange is better for enterprise situations because you can control the server, access to the server and how the data is backed up on the server. With GMail or Google Apps there is less control. Also, should your internet be down but your network up, people can still get to their calendars and tasks lists with exchange, not so with Google Apps. If a company has the resources and skills for exchange, the degree of control can provide security or comply with legal issues that GMail cannot.
For a small company without a dedicated mail server admin, Google Apps can provide a low cost alternative but skip some of the higher level control and esoteric features.
While I couldn't list for you the differences, I am sure the enterprise controls and features for Exchange are vast a many.
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You might be perfectly happy to use a generic webmail address as your calling card to the rest of the world. Just don't adopt an address from your ISP as your primary e-mail account.
If you move or change service providers, that address will become useless. The free Google Apps offering allows you to assign your custom domain to Google Apps. Hotmail offers this feature, too, but the domain management tools in Windows Live Admin Center made me want to scream in frustration. Naturally, all of the paid services—hosted Exchange, Office , and Google Apps—offer excellent integration with custom domains. For Office and Intermedia, I had a choice of turning an entire domain over or just defining mail exchange MX records.
If you know your way around DNS configuration, this is a straightforward task. If you live in Outlook, then your primary account should be on an Exchange server. Full stop. The combination of Outlook and Exchange offers great online and offline support. Hotmail accounts work well after you install the Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector.
If you have a Gmail account and you want offline access, you can use the Offline settings in Google's Chrome browser or try a third-party client program other than Outlook. If you want free, get Hotmail or Gmail. Google Apps is also available as a free offering. Google offers a variety of add-ons for its Google Apps for Business customers. Those latter add-ons were the reason I chose Office for my next book.
This is the question most people forget to ask. In my case, there was an enormous difference. Gmail, Hotmail, and Office were equally effective at separating the wheat from the chaff, with a low incidence of real messages swept into the Junk folder. Intermedia offers much more fine-grained control.
Every message that goes through its SpamStopper engine is assigned a numeric score. The higher the score, the more likely a particular message is likely to be spam. Using the sliders in the SpamStopper section of HostPilot allows you to set thresholds based on those scores, with messages above a certain score being moved to the Junk folder or summarily deleted. One of my e-mail addresses has been in use since
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