Sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with news from various sources on a topic as broad and diverse as cloud computing.

We hope our new Cloud Condenser series will help you find some of the best reading in recent articles on the cloud.

Government adoption of Google Apps picking up steam

by Mary Shacklett – Tech Republic

Manage staff transition in Google Apps: A 10 step checklist
by Amy Wolber – Tech Republic

Gmail finally blows past Hotmail to become the world’s largest email service
by Sean Ludwig – VentureBeat

Google, Yahoo, VMware Just Buzz Compared to Microsoft Office
by Elliott Markowitz – The VAR Guy

The New Microsoft Office Web Apps: Still Free, Still Almost Good Enough
by Mark Hachman – ReadWriteWeb

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