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Redmond has released a new build of its Office 365 cloudy productivity suite that's been specially hardened and certified for government use. "Office 365 for Government is a new multi-tenant service that stores US government data in a segregated community cloud," blogged Kirk Koenigsbauer, VP of Microsoft's Office division. " …

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  1. JimmyPage Silver badge
    FAIL

    PATRIOT Act ?

    Not sure how any agency outside the US can feel comfortable putting their data in the hands of a US-owned company who - by their own admission - would roll over, if Uncle Sam asked. Obviously this would inflame the tinfoil hat brigade anyway. But given that under said act a whole server farm can be shutdown, how would you cope with losing access - possibly permanently - to your data ?

  2. Bakunin
    Joke

    Microsoft offers Office 365 build tailored for government

    Slow to respond, awkward to navigate through and occasionally acts in an unaccountable manner.

    Sounds like a perfect match.

    1. dogged

      Re: Microsoft offers Office 365 build tailored for government

      Except that Office does actually produce things and doesn't ask you to like it. Otherwise, fair comparison.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Microsoft offers Office 365 build tailored for government

        http://xkcd.com/386/

    2. Tom 7

      Re: Microsoft offers Office 365 build tailored for government

      I was going to say that it performs a one way encryption of all your data on a FOI request.

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