Google pitches Workspace tools for ‘when, not if’ Microsoft 365 fails

Google is trying to capitalize connected what it calls “frequent and severe” Microsoft 365 outages by offering up services similar email, storage, and videoconferencing to businesses successful the lawsuit of a Microsoft outage. The hunt giant’s caller Business Continuity plan runs a Google Workspace successful parallel with Microsoft 365, truthful if there’s an outage past businesses conscionable power implicit to Gmail and Google Meet alternatively of Outlook and Microsoft Teams.

“Workspace, with enactment from our partners, volition sync emails, calendars, chat, and much with Microsoft 365, truthful lawsuit information is close wherever organizations request it, without requiring migration,” explains Google. “This tin support against disruptions to the halfway concern and impacts to customers.”

Google says “it’s a question of erstwhile and for however long, not if,” Microsoft 365 goes down, and points to the company’s Microsoft 365 Status relationship connected X that regularly posts outages. The past Microsoft 365 outage occurred on October 8th, conscionable days aft a problematic configuration change impacted mailbox connectivity for users.

Alongside the continuity enactment of moving a parallel lawsuit of Gmail, Google is besides offering up a Work Transformation Set that acts arsenic a replacement for Microsoft 365 customers that are “ready to permission down Microsoft’s lock-in and information incidents.” It combines Workspace and Gemini with options to brace them with individuality solutions similar Okta.

Microsoft and Google person a agelong past of trading blows publically similar this. Both companies returned to conflict each other past year, aft Microsoft accused Google of being down what it calls “shadow campaigns” to undermine and discredit Microsoft’s unreality business. More than a decennary ago, Microsoft adjacent ran onslaught ads that treated Google similar a governmental hostile with its Scroogled campaign, accusing Google of snooping connected consumers.