Google refutes Microsoft charge

WASHINGTON - Google has returned hearth at Microsoft, accusing its rival of resorting to untrue allegations in a very battle to win a US federal government agreement.
"We consider the federal government's safety demands severely and also have delivered on our promise to fulfill them," Google enterprise safety director Eran Feigenbaum explained in a weblog publish.
"What's much more, we have been open and transparent with all the authorities, and it can be irresponsible for Microsoft to recommend otherwise."
Feigenbaum's message came two day after Microsoft hit Google with the accusation of issuing deceptive statements.
Google rejected the costs through the Seattle-based application big from the legal tussle above a virtually $60 million agreement together with the US Department of Inside.
Microsoft said paperwork unsealed within the court situation showed that "Google Apps for Authorities," Google's Internet-based suite of workplace resources, had not been licensed below the Federal Details Safety Management Act (FISMA).
"Given the amount of times that Google has touted this declare, this was no modest improvement," Microsoft deputy common counsel David Howard explained within a weblog post. "It's time for Google to stop telling governments one thing which is not true."
FISMA lays out the safety standards for details management methods these as e mail.
Google and Onix Networking Corp., a reseller of Google items, filed suit against the US government last 12 months claiming the terms for that Division of Interior contract favored Microsoft.
Google argued the terms of the bid for an e mail, calendar and document collaboration system for some 88,000 Interior Division personnel implicitly rule out a Google products and favored one from Microsoft.
Google was advertising Google Apps for Govt for that contract over Microsoft's remedy.
Google remained adamant that a model of Google Apps acquired a FISMA safety authorization through the Basic Services Administration (GSA) in July 2010.
Feigenbaum mentioned Google's veracity was backed by congressional testimony from your GSA on Tuesday.
"We've been very transparent about our FISMA authorization," she explained.
"Our documentation has usually been easily accessible for almost any govt company to review."
Relations between the technologies giants have grown to be progressively acrimonious of late and Microsoft last month joined an anti-trust criticism in Europe towards Google more than its Internet search.
In February, Google accused Microsoft's search engine Bing of copying its outcomes.