advantages and disadvantages of GoogleApps compared to Office apps

The advantages of using GoogleApps over traditional Office applications are that students can work on there papers whenever they want to.  All the students have to have is the internet; they do not need a specific program.  If working on a group project everyone can work on the same document and make changes to it.  Another advantage is that if the student’s hard drive crashes on the computer there reports or projects are gone, but using GoogleApps there reports and projects are saved on the internet instead of the hard drive.  GoogleApps is also free compared to other programs that are out on the internet.  The disadvantages of using GoogleApps over traditional Office applications are that there are not as many choices to choose from.  For example, in power point you have many different layouts and animations to put in your presentations compared to the GoogleApps power point.