<p>Google Apps scored some enterprise street cred on Monday by announcing a huge customer: Whirlpool (WHR).</p><p>Whirlpool has 68,000 employees and 66 facilities around the world who will standardize on Apps, the cloud email and office productivity suite from Google (GOOG). Whirlpool did not ditch Microsoft (MSFT) Exchange or Office for Google. It was using IBM's Lotus Notes, its CIO Michael Heim told the Wall Street Journal.</p><p>Even so, Whirlpool is a feather in Google's cap for its sheer size and name recognition. Some 5 million businesses are using Google Apps, Google claims. The majority are small to mid-sized businesses.</p><p>Meanwhile, Microsoft has been crowing that its competitor to Apps, Office 365, the cloud version of its Microsoft Office apps, is the "fastest growing product" in company history on track to generate $1.5 billion worth of revenue on annual basis. It says it convinced 430 customers to come back to Microsoft after trying Google Apps.</p><p><a href="http://investorplace.com/2013/10/google-lands-a-huge-customer-for-google-apps-whirlpool-goog-msft/">Keep reading...</a></p>