Google and Microsoft have locked horns yet again, after the successful Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Deal. Previously, Google had announced that tit will was in the process of releasing its very own operating system for notebooks and desktops computers, called Google Chrome OS. To counter this announcement, Microsoft released the all new Office 2010, that had been built across three major platforms, phone, browser, and desktop.

Now Google has begun a massive campaign to entice business organizations to quit using Microsoft Office services and switch over to Google Products. As per Google advertisements, about 3,000 organizations have already signed up with Google to use the Google Apps and the list continues to grow. Google has taken the “Go Google” campaigns to the extremes, by hiring advertisement spaces on billboards on four major U.S. Highways, spreading awareness and intrigue about Google Apps to thousands of motorists who travel on these highways everyday. The billboard campaign will last for an entire month. These advertisement billboards will be set up at highway 101 in San Francisco, the West Side Hwy in New York, the Ike in Chicago, and Mass Pike in Boston. According to Google, the vinyl that will be used to paint these billboards, will be made from recyclable material that would later be turned into either shopping bags or computer bags.

Google Apps cost as against Microsoft Exchange 2007:

Google has stated that more than 1.75 million schools and offices have already signed up to use Google Apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs etc.

Via TechCrunch.