In a rather scathing blog post, Google criticized the dominance of Microsoft’s productivity software currently in use across US federal and state governments for the security risks and vulnerability associated with the ‘legacy’ tools. While there is truth to Google’s claims, the Public Opinion Strategies survey it has used to make them is also questionable in itself.
For starters, the survey is commissioned by Google Cloud, instead of being independent. And if that doesn’t increase the risk of bias, the meaningful sample size on which Google has drawn its conclusion forms just 13 percent of the total, since just 338 out of 2,600 surveyed people are government employees.
