I think I'll pass...
... on mentioning that so very subtle and completely inconspicuous link at the end of the article.
Microsoft’s cloud productivity pack Office 365 has won an important certification from the US government, by ticking off all the to-do’s on the list to comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). FISMA requires US government agencies to develop and maintain security controls, the better to protect the …
Governments (in general, including mine) are bound to love this. It saves them the trouble (brain usage) from having to figure out where to get the stuff.
Mr. Black: "See, I can do it tool; we no need those admin guys no more, yahoo!".
Next (fictional!)! year: "Office 365 suffered from a malfunction, anyone could get access!".
Mr. Black: "I wasn't the one to blame, those darned admin guys never told me the risks of using this. We need need new laws on systems administration!".
"darned admin guys" (response never to be found in the media under normal circumstances): "you're the one who fired us for suggesting NOT to use that stuff in the first place a**"pocket").
OK, I am jesting here because in all fairness I am a fan of MS Office 2010. But I also think to know how government works and as such...
Sadly, I think that's the wrong icon. Because while as a help desk non-entity I am relatively safe, that's exactly the approach they are taking for our cloud mail migration project. Now it might make a lot of sense for much of what we are doing and be more cost effective (it supposedly implements one of those fail-safe we can find any messages related to litigation that might one day arise packages we couldn't otherwise afford), it hasn't been exactly smooth or problem-free. For instance certain kinds of document exchanges that use to be simple are now rather complicated. And scheduling meetings with the calendar software is something of a nightmare.