Microsoft Office 365: Still not for small business

Why is this the only option for Small Businesses?

The only deal-breaker we wrote about in May is now an official feature of the Office 365 for Small Business and Professional Plan. It's crazy that Microsoft does not allow you to keep your own website when using this plan which starts at $6 per month. Instead your company is either forced into the more expensive Enterprise level plans (at $16 to $24 per user per month), or to dump the website you spent time and money on for a cheap replacement with a dozen amateurish templates.

Here's the "best" we could find for our test account.

Microsoft, we cannot express how much this decision has disappointed thousands of IT consultants looking for a real competitor to Google Apps. Companies with 50 or fewer employees will nearly quadruple their costs when making the switch to Office 365 (E2 Plan) from Google, and for startups the sacrifice of a professional website is still a deal breaker. This is 2011, small businesses already have websites Microsoft.