Upgrade to Office 2010 or go with Google Apps? Find out which one better fits your business needs in our guide.

The productivity suite most likely to reside on your work computer is Microsoft Office. Yet Google Apps and its subset, Google Docs, have managed to claim a portion of the productivity suite market. Today's workforce is becoming increasingly mobile and the anywhere, anytime accessibility of Google Docs makes it an ideal alternative to Microsoft's mostly desktop-centric offering.

The biggest buzz over the just-released-to-business Office 2010 is its collaborative and cloud-based capabilities. These features are delivered in Office 2010 via Microsoft's hosted or on-premise SharePoint 2010 Server or Office Web Apps.

These new capabilities elevate the Office suite to the cloud giving Google competition that's sure to be closely watched by industry analysts. While the two tech giants go head-to-head; as a business owner, you need to turn a deaf ear to the white noise and focus on which suite is best for your business.