Microsoft's online offerings have been a pain for me. I have numerous accounts under different email addresses and it takes for ever to get logged in to more than one at a time. Running one in chrome, another chrome incognito, another Firefox, another ie. Their "single sign on" is a ux disaster.<p>Edit: Offerings include Office 365 online, and different azure accounts, and an msdn account.
I started using outlook.com and related services about two years ago and loved it. Now that I'm on Office 365, I miss the simplicity of outlook.com.<p>On top of that, there was no upgrade path between the two products.
"Also, as one software developer to another, I’d recommend having a Chief User Experience Officer and make sure your user experience is adequately tested across the entire purchase and usage lifecycle, instead of in silos."<p>I fear that Microsoft, like most other large tech companies, has more User Experience designers, experts, and "officer"s than ever. They removed those things you struggled to find in order to make it "easier".
Are there dedicated websites for Google Docs? We use Google Docs at work and just do everything through Google Drive web interface.<p>Likewise I'm a Office 365 subscriber at home, and I have Excel installed for password protected spreadsheets, but I do everything via One Drive... I wasn't even aware nor did I even think there was some dedicated web app for Office 365...
Hmm, my experience did not match this at all. Office 365 has been a joy to use. Really, just go to office.live.com (directly linked from office.microsoft.com if you start there) & sign in... You are prompted to create or upload a document similar to Google docs.
>>" Chief User Experience Officer"<p>Do big companies often run an army of UX people to be managed with a Chief UX title across products?
Does any company already have it?