From Phil Wainewright's ZDnet blog Titled: UK builder switches email to Google Apps

A leading British construction company switched 1,800 users over to Google Apps on May 2nd, becoming the largest live deployment in the UK so far for Google’s enterprise applications suite. In a phone interview this morning, Rob Ramsay, director of IT at Taylor Woodrow, firmly refuted the allegations reported here yesterday that Google applications aren’t fit for enterprise use.

“We’ve had a close on three-and-a-half-year relationship with Google based on the Google Search Appliance. We’ve found it [very] easy to deal with them and anything that corporately you’d expect, they’ve been able to deliver,” he told me.

Taylor Woodrow brought 200 users live with a pilot implementation of Google Apps in November last year and more than a thousand users tried out the service prior to the May go-live date. At that point, the company switched off its legacy email system, forcing all users onto Google Apps. There had been no reliability issues with the service, Ramsay said: “We haven’t had that sort of issue from the business saying, ‘We have an outage here’.” And based on his prior experience with the search appliance, Ramsay is confident that where changes and upgrades are needed, they’ll be delivered as promised and on schedule — with the added benefit that all users will get the upgrade automatically without any local installation required.

Microsoft has issued an advisory warning for Windows users who have installed Apple’s Safari for Windows browser that their systems may be susceptible to attack.

The Vulnerability was first reported last month by Nitesh Dhanjani and later dismissed by Apple as not to be a security threat.