Google Wins Injunction in Cloud Computing Bid Protest Towards Interior
Follow up to Google Files Bid Protest In opposition to Dept. of Interior More than Hosted E mail and Collaboration Solutions,
Windows 7 Professional Key, news that Google wins: Interior forbidden to award noncompetitive agreement to Microsoft - "U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge Susan Braden ruled on Jan. 3 that negotiations for any sole supply contract with Microsoft commenced many months prior to July 15, 2010, when section officers determined Microsoft's application was their common for e-mail and pc running programs. Meanwhile, Google had been looking to get deemed for the operate as well."
USDA Moves 120,000 Consumers to Microsofts Cloud
News release: "The Usa Section of Agriculture (USDA) announced these days that it is relocating its on-premises e-mail and productivity programs to Microsofts cloud infrastructure, getting to be the very first cabinet-level federal company to embrace the cloud. In one of the greatest cloud federal government deployments ever before, the USDA is relocating its 120,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional,000 consumers to Microsoft On the internet Solutions,
Cheap Office 2007, consolidating 21 distinct messaging and collaboration systems into one particular, explained Chris Smith, the USDAs chief details officer. The USDA ideas to begin the shift in another four weeks. This is really about growing collaboration and communications across the breadth of 120,000 customers in five,000 offices across the nation and a hundred countries across the world to greater supply on the USDAs mission, he mentioned. For us a move towards the cloud was a question of functionality, services, and charge, and this remedy will assist us streamline our efforts and use taxpayer dollars effectively. The USDA will use Microsoft Trade On-line for messaging and calendaring, SharePoint On the internet for document collaboration, Workplace Communications On the web for instantaneous messaging, and Office Stay Meeting for World wide web conferencing. Smith said that advancements in productivity and communication, such as the ability to see colleagues availability and pick whether or not they desire to communicate through chat, voice, or mail, mean that staff will now be able to collaborate more effectively."
Verizon White Paper: Escaping from Microsofts Secured Mode Internet Explorer
Escaping from Microsofts Protected Mode Web Explorer - Evaluating a prospective protection boundary, November 2010
"In Net Explorer seven and Windows Vista,
Buy Office 2007, Microsoft released a whole new browser safety feature referred to as Protected Mode. According to Microsoft, this mechanism significantly lessens the potential of an assault [against Web Explorer] to write, alter or destroy data to the users machine.1,two A clearer description is the fact that the feature attempts to protect the integrity in the client machine inside the event the browser is compromised in an attack and avoid malware from getting persisted on the targeted machine. This paper will explain why this isn't at present the situation in Web Explorer 7 or 8 for remote code execution vulnerabilities, discuss the limitations in the function by style, recognize generic attacks patterns that will be utilised to bypass the function (devoid of user intervention) and talk about some inconsistencies in the underlying entry control applied in Microsoft® Windows®."
Google Files Bid Protest Versus Dept. of Interior Above Hosted Email and Collaboration Providers
The complaint, Google Inc. vs. America,
Office 2010 Pro Plus Key, filed Ocotber 29, 2010 inside the U.S. Court of Federal Statements, is here. "This action protests the terms of U.S. Division from the Interior ("DOI") Request for Quotation 503786 ("RFQ") for hosted electronic mail and collaboration solutions and DOI's supporting "Limited Source Justification", and seeks preliminary and long term injunction in opposition to the DOI proceeding with the RFQ, or any connected procurement, solicitation or activity order, with out very first complying with applicable statutory and regulatory specifications..."
TechSpot, by means of TechDirt: "...Google Apps wasn't within the government's table as well as the search giant is arguing that restricting the Request for Quotation (RFQ), a document asking companies to design an answer and quote a price tag, to Microsoft is "unduly restrictive of levels of competition." The US is defending its place by claiming that Google was not thought to be in the RFQ since Redmond supplied two issues that Mountain Watch did not: Unified Mail/Messaging, and "enhanced protection." Within the RFQ, the Division of Interior (DOI) specially stated that the answer had to be part of the Microsoft Organization Productivity On-line Suite in accordance for the 37-page court filing. Google pointed out on the DOI that Microsoft has had downtime concerns inside the past and insisted that Google Apps can be a ideal alternative."
["The contract, really worth practically $60 million, seeks to consolidate thirteen diverse e-mail systems into a single web-based platform."]
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