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Microsoft slams Google’s claims about government applications
IRONY PROOF Microsoft has called out Google for alleged anti-competitive practices and accused it of behaving underhandedly in seeking lucrative US government contracts.
Microsoft's legal team has just got its hands on some recently unsealed court documents that said Google's applications were not considered secure enough for use in government, which it said was at odds with its claims..
At issue is whether Google Applications have Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification, considering that the firm had sued the government after the Department of the Interior (DOI) selected Microsoft offerings for a cloud-based email system.
Only after the court papers were unsealed and an earlier finding from the Department of Justice was revealed did Microsoft learn that the certification claims and the lawsuit were apparently nonsense, in its view.
"Last Friday afternoon, I learned that a batch of court documents had been unsealed and had revealed one particularly striking development: the United States Department of Justice had rejected Google's claim that Google Apps for Government, Google's cloud-based suite for government customers, has been certified...", Microsoft deputy general counsel David Howard said in a blog post.
"Given the number of times that Google has touted this claim, this was no small development... It's time for Google to stop telling governments something that is not true."
Google has already responded to the claims and in a statement told The INQUIRER, "This case is about the Department of Interior limiting its proposal to one product that isn't even FISMA certified, so this question is unrelated to our request that DOI allow for a true competition when selecting its technology providers.
"Even so, we did not mislead the court or our customers. Google Apps received a FISMA security authorisation from the General Services Administration in July 2010. Google Apps for Government is the same system with enhanced security controls that go beyond FISMA requirements. As planned we're working with GSA to continuously update our documentation with these and other additional enhancements."
However, Howard had already expected this response, and asked why then did it put both versions for certification.
"Google can't be under the misimpression that FISMA certification for Google Apps Premier also covers Google Apps for Government," he said. "If that were the case, then why did Google, according to the attachments in the DOJ brief, decide to file a separate FISMA application for Google Apps for Government?" µ
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I understand what you're saying, but isn't it the government's right to choose a product from one company over another without taking cost into cosideration solely based on quality of existing products in this market and perceived security of each company's system?
I know m$ has been convicted on monpolistic stuff before, but their cloud and email service have been proven to be more flexible and more secure than google's over the last couple of years.
An end user cannot be sued for choosing one product over another just because they perceive it to be a better solution. Why can't the gvt?
Google sued the government because it handed convicted monopolist Microsoft a huge no-bid contract. Please note that the government (defendant) claimed Google (plaintiff) was lying in the court documents, without needing to substantiate that claim. Microsoft is just pi$$ed off that Google is able to take money out of their collective pocket!
OK, had to read this twice because it sounds so outrageous. So google sued THE GOVERNMENT for not using their stuff because it is insecure. After all their email leaks and emails being deleted and being directed to the wrong addresses? After their antitrust cases all over the world for effectively profiting from private data? And they thought the goverment was somehow wrong to avoid them like a hooker with herpes? How can any one company be that full of themselves??
This whole thing makes me realize something, MS had secure operating systems, and how did they do that? By making it unsuitable for games.
And what else isn't so suited for games? apple computers and linux.
Seems that if you make an OS that does games the kids install it then start hacking it and that's the core secret to it all.
So that means that since android and iphone/ipad are both going in the games direction there's trouble ahead, and didn't I hear about a growing number of phone viruses?
I can't get over these people. They COPY, everything they can't buy. ( Ask Billy where he remembers Seattle Computers from). He gave these folks a pittance for their OS, and turned it into BIG bucks. Didn't have the know how to build from the ground up a (1) Spreadsheet, OR (2) a DECENT WP ( couldn't even compete with Word-Star on their own), couldn't build a database of their own. Even ICONS, POINT&CLICK ( Xerox PARC) And on and on. MS has NERVE! LINUX/BSD it's YOUR TIME!!!!
Why did Apps Government get rejected if it is just an improvement over Apps Premier?
I smell M$ influencing the government.