Microsoft's suite of hosted business applications for government -- its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) F-- has recieved FISMA certification, Microsoft officials said on April 20. The ...

Google has suddenly found itself in hot water, exposed - by Microsoft, no less - for being a "liar, liar" when it comes to the security certification it has been touting for its Google Apps for ...

Microsoft is calling out Google, its key cloud computing competitor, claiming that Google Apps for Government isn't up to snuff and doesn't have Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) ...

When Microsoft called out Google for making misleading claims about FISMA certification, Microsoft was still working on getting its own stamp of approval from the government. Microsoft just today ...

BPOS-Federal, which includes Exchange Online, SharePoint online and Office Communications online, was FISMA-certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). FISMA certification, created in 2002 ...

Microsoft claims Google Apps for Government doesn't meet security certification that Google has touted. Google says Microsoft is wrong. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle and focuses ...

Is Google Apps for Government certified under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)? The question has suddenly become the newest battleground for Google and Microsoft in their race ...

Google on Monday denied an allegation by rival Microsoft that it lied about an important government certification. But an analyst with experience in dealing with the federal government, and its ...

It was an IT bombshell heard ’round the Beltway this week. Google lacks Federal Information Management Act (FISMA) certification for its cloud-based “Google Apps for Government” product. The bombshell ...

Update: Google responds. Please see the bottom of the post. According to recently unsealed legal documents, Google appears to be promulgating falsehoods. At least according to Microsoft’s reading of ...