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SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp. is lashing discover at Google Inc., extending hostilities between digit of the most prominent corporations in the technology industry.

Microsoft claimed Google has been dishonorable customers about the section authorisation of its flat of software programs for governments. Microsoft's help generalized counsel, David Howard, blogged on weekday about a newly opened court writing that shows that "Google Apps for Government" hasn't been certificated low the Federal Information Security Management Act.

Google's website claims it has, and the consort has genuine to that in court documents.

"It's instance for Google to kibosh informing governments something that is not true," histrion wrote.

The documents are conception of a Google lawsuit alleging that it was improperly icy discover of competing for a U.S. Department of Interior lessen to physique a newborn e-mail grouping for 85,000 employees — a lessen that Microsoft won. A determine early sided with Google's belief that the invitation was rigged to souvenir Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, and issued a preliminary enjoinment while the digit sides duke it out.

Google insists it's not deceiving anyone, since a less-robust version of the creation has already been certificated low FISMA.

"We did not take the court or our customers," the consort said in a statement, noting that "Google Apps" received a FISMA clearance in July 2010, and that "Google Apps for Government" is "the aforementioned grouping with enhanced section controls that go beyond FISMA requirements."

The documents exhibit that Mountain View, Calif.-based Google is in the process of applying for authorisation for "Google Apps for Government."

The disceptation illustrates the panoramic arrange of complaints and tactics that Google and Microsoft are using to attack apiece other. Their state has grown as Microsoft encroaches on Google's search greensward and Google goes occupation on Microsoft's customers to delude them programs much as telecommunicate and word processing.

The maneuvering has ranged from a "gotcha"-type stunt in which Google accused Microsoft in Feb of copying Google's search results, to Microsoft — daylong a direct of just complaints — filing its prototypal conventional just complaint against a competition by arguing to dweller authorities that Google is abusing its ascendency to withhold discover competition services.

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