Thursday, October 14, 2010

Google Apps for Education hits 10 million user milestone | ZDNet

Google Apps for Education hits 10 million user milestone | ZDNet

Google Apps for Education hits 10 million user milestone

By Christopher Dawson | October 14, 2010, 9:00am PDT

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10 million active users: That’s a lot of future Google Apps customers.

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Google is announcing at EDUCAUSE today that, four years after introducing Google Apps for Education, it now has 10 million active users at universities and K-12 schools worldwide. Active users are people within Google Apps domains who have signed on within the last 7 days and include students, staff, alumni, and even parents (in some K-12 settings), depending upon how the schools have rolled out the services.

In a blog post this morning, Google noted,

In the last four years we’ve seen a lot of changes, both to our tools and the general landscape of cloud computing in higher education.