Microsoft UK recently posted an ‘Office 365 vs Google Apps‘ presentation to SlideShare, positioned as a day in the life of an IT professional.
Well…
…this initiative pushes forward many of Google’s agendas: get into an institution through its end users, not its admins, get more people online so they’ll click Google ads, and, the future is the Web, not the hard drive.
…All these issues affect how you want your information to be visible from one network to the next and over time. Are all these factors taken into consideration when Google decides to share your network? Behaviours emerge from networks, they are not predicted or calculated in advance…
In February 2010 three Google executives were convicted of a privacy violation in an Italian court and received suspended prison sentences. The reason for the trial and conviction: they allowed people to upload a video to Google Video showing someone being bullied. It was two hours before the video was removed following complaints.
“It is like prosecuting the post office for hate mail that is sent in the post”
