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REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewzwire/ -- In a move that may surprise some
industry onlookers, but that is being described by a company spokesman as
"making incredible sense at the bottom line," Microsoft Corporation
announced today that it will begin migrating its corporate information
technology operations to arch-rival Google's "Google Apps" Internet
"cloud"-based services environment by the start of the second quarter this
year.
"We've gone over the numbers more ways than you can crash Vista, said Hymie
Morander of the newly formed "Microogly" working group at the software
giant's Washington State headquarters. "We're going to save millions --
maybe billions! -- by moving most of our employees over to free Google Apps
services like Gmail. Plus we'll be freeing up resources here to concentrate
on our core competencies like Flight Simulator and stylus-based mobile phone
operating systems."
Asked if the $50/user/year "Google Apps for Business" services tier might be
more appropriate for Microsoft's use, Morander noted that, "Some of our top
executives' needs will likely justify that level of expenditure, but most of
us will be able to do just fine with the very generous allotments in the
free versions of Google Apps. Seven gigs of storage is more than enough to
hold all of my Microsoft internal correspondence, plus most of my uuencoded
porn collection! Every Microsoft employee will be assigned a nondescript
alias for Gmail use to avoid attracting Google's attention -- for instance,
I'm [email protected]."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer emphasized that Microsoft's move to Google Apps
only involved Microsoft's internal global corporate operations, and would
not in any way impact customer-facing services such as Microsoft's popular
"Bing" decision engine.
"Given Microsoft's intense desire to enthusiastically embrace the diverse
and expansive censorship requirements of our partners in the Chinese
government, and Google's apparent reluctance to meet those same
requirements, we'll definitely be keeping our Bing and other related
public-use servers running on their current CP/M Windows 98 secure clusters
into the foreseeable future," Ballmer promised.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
SOURCE Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft to Transition Corporate IT to Google Apps
REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewzwire/ -- In a move that may surprise some
industry onlookers, but that is being described by a company spokesman as
"making incredible sense at the bottom line," Microsoft Corporation
announced today that it will begin migrating its corporate information
technology operations to arch-rival Google's "Google Apps" Internet
"cloud"-based services environment by the start of the second quarter this
year.
"We've gone over the numbers more ways than you can crash Vista, said Hymie
Morander of the newly formed "Microogly" working group at the software
giant's Washington State headquarters. "We're going to save millions --
maybe billions! -- by moving most of our employees over to free Google Apps
services like Gmail. Plus we'll be freeing up resources here to concentrate
on our core competencies like Flight Simulator and stylus-based mobile phone
operating systems."
Asked if the $50/user/year "Google Apps for Business" services tier might be
more appropriate for Microsoft's use, Morander noted that, "Some of our top
executives' needs will likely justify that level of expenditure, but most of
us will be able to do just fine with the very generous allotments in the
free versions of Google Apps. Seven gigs of storage is more than enough to
hold all of my Microsoft internal correspondence, plus most of my uuencoded
porn collection! Every Microsoft employee will be assigned a nondescript
alias for Gmail use to avoid attracting Google's attention -- for instance,
I'm [email protected]."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer emphasized that Microsoft's move to Google Apps
only involved Microsoft's internal global corporate operations, and would
not in any way impact customer-facing services such as Microsoft's popular
"Bing" decision engine.
"Given Microsoft's intense desire to enthusiastically embrace the diverse
and expansive censorship requirements of our partners in the Chinese
government, and Google's apparent reluctance to meet those same
requirements, we'll definitely be keeping our Bing and other related
public-use servers running on their current CP/M Windows 98 secure clusters
into the foreseeable future," Ballmer promised.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
SOURCE Microsoft Corp.
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