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Do you really need Office? Really? If the Feds don't, do we?

Christopher Dawson: For 95% of what we do, Google Apps does the trick quite nicely and allows people to work together. For a wide swath of users, however, getting them to jump into the cloud and leave their biases in favor of Office behind is remarkably difficult.

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