Believe it or not, email is still the killer app. IBM Gives Birth to Amazing E-mail-less Man. IBM's Luis Suarez decided to dump e-mail four years ago.
So far, he's shrunk his inbox by 98 percent. (Photo: Luis Suarez) Berkeley Explains Why Google Trumps Microsoft. The University of California at Berkeley has chosen Google over Microsoft for its campus-wide email and calendar services, and it will tell you why — in great detail.
Google and Microsoft are locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of businesses, government agencies, and schools across the globe, each touting its own suite of business applications as the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sometimes, Google wins, and sometimes Microsoft. But Berkeley’s choice is worth noting because the university so carefully explained why it picked one over the other.