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

Posted by Soulskill on from the heck-of-a-commission dept.

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."

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  1. I'm pretty sure /. just ate my post on this one... by idbeholda · · Score: 5, Informative

    This shouldn't come as any surprise, since Google didn't have an outage due to a "leap year glitch". Any wonder why they skipped over Office?

  2. Re:To a bureaucrat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I await the day when some unknown 5-star general suddenly realises that Powerpoint is a waste of resources, though I doubt it will happen in my lifetime

    The military calls it "death by powerpoint". Gen. James N. Mattis & Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster are such commanders that have banned or severely restricted use of powerpoint under their command.
    They found that their staff was spending more time preparing fancy slides than actually analyzing information or planning missions/operations. So they scrapped it.