This is just one of several reports on the white hot battle between Microsoft and Google on lobbying (and other) fronts.
Microsoft has a bitter rivalry with Google, competing head-to-head in such areas as online search and personal productivity applications. At the vendor’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans last month, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner identified Google as a target for its competitive efforts and said Microsoft channel partners should compete with Google Apps by showing customers documentation of the company’s outages and security problems.