Microsoft battles Google Apps campus popularity with some creative licensing
As of June 2011, more than 12 million students use Google Apps for Education.
Google provides its premium Google Apps service for free to schools, so it’s tough out there for a Microsoft enterprise sales team courting the next generation.
Microsoft Pays University of Nebraska To Use Office 365
When you can’t beat em (Google Apps in the Cloud), don’t even try. Pay people to use your service instead.
No, it’s not straight-up cash. But it’s still hundreds of thousands of dollars in incentives such as other Microsoft software. Money that would otherwise be revenue from the University of Nebraska to Microsoft. So yes, they are paying them.
