Microsoft fail: Motorola tosses Outlook for Google Apps, City of LA next

News broke yesterday, via Business Insider, that telecom equipment and handset maker Motorola (MOT) would adopt Google (GOOG) Apps in its mobile devices division and ditch a key piece of Microsoft's (MSFT) Offiice suite. That's thousands of corporate users who will no longer be using Microsoft's Outlook backed by the company's highly profitable Exchange email server. And that's a really big IT department no longer paying for what is likely one of Microsoft's most lucrative software products.

It also looks like the City of Los Angeles rolled to Google Apps.

Perhaps this is why Microsoft shares have lagged their technology peers by so much over the past five years -- the creeping erosion of mindshare for Office.