Google Apps Beats Office 365 For US Dept. of the Interior Contract

angry tapir writes "The U.S. Department of the Interior has picked Google Apps to provide cloud-based email and collaboration applications to about 90,000 staffers, choosing Google's services over Microsoft's Office 365. Google had sued the U.S. agency in 2010, claiming its requirements for the contract tilted the scales unfairly toward Microsoft. Google eventually dropped its lawsuit last September."

Comments

How about 'disappearing features'?

[kaladorn]

If Google's record on Google Docs and Gmail is any indication, they tend to update on *their* schedule (vs. any organization's schedule) and they freely delete key features (TOC in Google Docs comes to mind!).

Not sure why anyone in government would choose to have software they don't control the key feature set for.

In MS software, at least I could not update and not get the new misery until I felt like it. In Google's world, you get it when they tell you you'll get it and the changes they make, you'll just have to live with.

How anyone at Google could imagine a Docs rev without TOC (and it actually reformats old docs if you let it to remove existing TOCs) made sense, I can't imagine. But this is what you get if you let someone else control release schedules and inflict their current idea of feature set and UI on them on their timelines.