Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Sara — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:32:15 GMT

It is SO funny that some of you thought this was a serious post! I have to laugh. Google did a sartircal post about Contoso moving to Google Apps and Microsoft did one about Contoso moving back to Microsoft - YET THEY WERE BOTH SATIRE! Some of you need to take a deep breath and LAUGH - as this post was intended to pull that laughter out of you!

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Ian Ray — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:47:39 GMT

@Tony

Check out

groups.google.com/forum

There are quite a bit more data points in the discussions. Not everyone has the same opinion as ATHEN.

'vLookup'? You mean 'GoogleLookup' and 'GoogleFinance'.

When I mean please stay current, I don't necessarily mean please get more up to date with your attack marketing (although the attack marketing has lagged consistently in the time I've been reading it). I mean get these emerging products up to speed. Namely tablets, smartphones, and cloud services.

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Tony Tai - MSFT — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:45:00 GMT

@Ian Ray: Realities of Google Apps user experience is quite different from your single data point. Here is Google accessibility report card from 2/29/2012, www.athenpro.org/.../162, showing significant issues with JAWS and ChromeVox.

There are plenty of evidence of users struggling with common day to day Google Docs features. Even worse, features one might depend on to do his/her job (ex. 'vLookup' support.google.com/.../answer.py) that get randomly shut down and leave users with errors.

So after 5 years of product release, Google is still trying to 'improve' and add basic features (like Spell Check or yet to have the ability to select multiple non-consecutive cells in Spreadsheets ). Well, I think there are plenty of customers would be concern about Google Apps limitation TODAY.

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Ian Ray — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:11:54 GMT

@Paul Bowkett, yes, and this article looks like it was written the next day.

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Paul Bowkett - MSFT — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:35:15 GMT

Guys, you realise that Google did an Apil Fools joke last year and said that Contoso had move to Google apps right?

googleenterprise.blogspot.com.au/.../contoso-has-gone-google.html

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Ian Ray — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:30:19 GMT

Both Google and Microsoft are leveraging html5, css, and javascript... why do you think Metro interface came out so interesting? I don't really see browser as the debate anymore. Web browsers are finally mature enough to run business software after a decade+ of half-hearted company "portals" and other gimmicks. Sharepoint Online was the cleanest part of the Office 365 when I tested it and it worked fine in major browsers.

I'm looking forward to how Metro evolves an it potentially integrated into the rest of Microsoft's software line, perhaps in pure Web services.

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:04:59 GMT

@Derik why do you think Google has some platform? Do you mean browser and JavaScript? This kind of platform is bringing all of us back in the history. Respekt for all your search-things, but for application platform you will need 10 more years if at all.

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Reno — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:12:48 GMT

What a bad spirit in a bad competitive story. I thought Microsoft was more serious and professional instead of telling a story full of false assumptions. Tom would take a more serious approach of what is really Google Apps instead of this "last chance" destructive fake analysis.

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

thenonhacker — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:16:19 GMT

It's a satire, with lots of truth to it.

I LOL'd at:

"When we called Google, we were told that 58 people with no service did not qualify as downtime. By their definition, the system was not truly down unless more than 5 percent of users were affected."

And a link showing Google's definition of "downtime" at www.google.com/.../sla.html

re: Contoso Fooled By Google, Returns to Microsoft

Ruth Volk — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:34:26 GMT

I think this Story is only a prematurely April Foul :-),

en.wikipedia.org/.../Contoso