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British small biz falls out of love with Microsoft, heads to the Clouds
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| In their poll of 1,400 Microsoft customers, all small businesses in the UK,
| they found that 13% of them intend to switch to Google Apps within 12 months
| while 22% are âundecidedâ. In other words a healthy number are either
| switching or probably poised to switch. Of the remaining, 36% were Not
| Switching and 29% were âNot awareâ of Google Apps.
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http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/british-small-biz-falls-out-of-love-with-microsoft-heads-to-the-clouds/
Microsoft Office Use Erodes Among UK SMBs
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| Despite the dominance of Microsoft Office, Google Apps may be gaining ground
| with small businesses in the United Kingdom, according to a new study.
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| Accredited Supplier, a U.K.-based B2B marketplace, polled 1,400 Microsoft
| (NASDAQ: MSFT) customers, and found that 13 percent plan to switch from
| Office to Google Apps within the next 12 months.
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3837241/Microsoft+Office+Use+Erodes+Among+UK+SMBs.htm
Microsoft beware - UK businesses are going Google
http://www.revolutionmagazine.com/news/930668/Microsoft-beware---UK-businesses-going-Google/
Waving hello to Google Apps
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/09/waving-hello-to-google-apps.html
Businesses Don't Expect 100% Availability With Gmail
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| There's been plenty of blogging, twittering, and general hand-wringing about
| Google's Gmail outage Tuesday. But rather than extend this into yet another
| philosophical discussion about the viability of cloud computing, let's keep
| this in mind: Businesses who've signed on for Gmail don't expect perfection.
| In fact, both Google and Microsoft only agree to 99.9% uptime for their
| online email offerings.
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http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2009/09/businesses_dont.html
Microsoft's grip on users is being lost in the cloud
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| Microsoft's goal obviously is to coerce me to upgrade to the new version of
| Office, which would cost me as much as $400, take up an enormous amount of my
| hard drive space and undoubtedly consume obscene quantities of my computing
| power.
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| [...]
| b
| Still, the cloud is opening the playing field for sellers of what's known
| as "software as a service" -- instead of buying a program and managing it in
| your home or office, you pay these guys a subscription fee to maintain the
| program and hold your data on their computers. (What happens to your data if
| your subscription lapses or the servicer goes out of business is another
| issue still lost in the, er, clouds.)
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik3-2009sep03,0,2123548.column
Recent:
Microsoft screwing themselves while they try to screw Google
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| It turns out Microsoft has been busy holding weekly âScrew Googleâ meetings,
| trying to figure out how to throw roadblocks in front of Google as they
| continue to dominate the search arena. Itâs easy for me to say, but doesnât
| it make a lot more sense to spend millions of dollars making something thatâs
| actually better than Google rather than simply trying to make them look bad?
|
| [...]
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| Itâs time for Microsoft to stop wasting their money worrying about Google,
| and start breaking their own trails. Microsoft does have some diamonds in
| their rough though â one example is their development tools, frameworks and
| platforms. This includes WPF, Silverlight and Microsoft Surface â and in my
| opinion, Microsoft needs to invest more heavily in those technologies.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1531
Related:
Corn Farmers Against Google?
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| Only if they're planting in AstroTurf
|
| [...]
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| How do you know the organization, and the op-ed, weren't created by LawMedia
| Group at the behest of some well-funded clients? If they did their jobs
| right, you don't know.
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| Some of them have left digital fingerprints here and there, though, says
| Declan McCullagh, in a blockbuster of a report exposing the intellectual
| whoredom offered for various important issues. Shortly after Microsoft hired
| LawMedia, for example, legislators, national agencies, and news outlets
| received pointed complaints from coalitions of farmers, rural voters, and
| geeky Latinos about how Google's advertising deal with Yahoo would wreck
| everything.
|
| [...]
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| Don't call them a PR firm or a lobbying firm though, Law Media â which has a
| ton of lawyers working for them tooâis a "public affairs firm" specializing
| in producing "remarkable coalitions" for anything one might need a coalition
| for.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/14/corn-farmers-against-google
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