Google renames, bulks up Google Apps, following Microsoft’s Office 365 rebranding

Ron

As of November 18, Google Apps — the primary competitor of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) and Office 365 successor — has gone from being a bundle of eight apps to one with 60. Sort of….

As you might have guessed, the change is more about naming than anything else. As Microsoft did in October with its Office 365 launch, Google is getting its branding house in order. Google is simplifying the names of the existing Google Apps SKUs