GE picks Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity suite
General Electric (GE) on Monday gave a big endorsement to Microsoft’s (MSFT) Office 365 by choosing the cloud productivity software suite for its more than 300,000 employees across 170 countries worldwide. GE selected Office 365 based on Microsoft’s ability to deliver rich productivity experiences at massive scale across devices and platforms, the company said in a press release. Office 365 includes such familiar programs as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Its main competition is Google Docs from Google (GOOGL). Key features of Office 365 for GE workers include Skype for Business calling and meetings, real-time document co-authoring, and team collaboration. In other cloud computing news, Microsoft reportedly is buying cloud security company Adallom for about $320 million, Israeli business news website Globes reported Sunday. Microsoft is scheduled to report fiscal Q4 earnings after the market close Tuesday….