
<p>You may have decided a few years ago to move your email, file sharing, and productivity apps to the cloud using Google Apps -- why manage all those servers and apps in your data center? But for productivity apps, Google Apps is not as richly featured as Microsoft Office. Now that Microsoft has its own cloud service for email, file sharing, and productivity apps -- Office 365 -- you may be well tempted to switch.</p><p>If you're moving from on-premises Exchange to Google Apps or Office 365, there's good documentation on how to migrate. But what about moving from one cloud to the other? It's not so obvious, as you don't have a local environment in place for recovery or staging.</p><p>[ The InfoWorld review: Google Apps vs. Office 365 Tested: The latest Office 365 enhancements. | Stay atop key Microsoft technologies in our Technology: Microsoft newsletter. ]</p><p>Depending on your size and budget, you have two options: manual migration, where you handle the swap in-house, or third-party migration, where you use a tool. For smaller migrations and do-it-yourselfers, Office 365 offers a migration wizard for email, but it won't migrate contacts or calendars.</p><p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/how-make-the-move-google-apps-office-365-217617">Keep reading...</a></p>