Google continued with its spate of redesign efforts, and redesigned its Apps Status Dashboard, which communicates the uptime status of its Google Apps suite. According to Google, this new design reduces clutter and conveys information more efficiently to users. In the blog entry announcing the change, Google makes sure to point out that Google's dashboard "is visible to everyone on the Web–there’s no username or password required", in an obvious take on Microsoft Office 365's "Service Health Dashboard" which is accessible only after a login. 

Google's approach is a lot more confident, in putting its App status out there for everyone to see, unlike Office 365. Microsoft is understandably shy about Office 365, because its services have a bad uptime record and "Service Health Dashboard" itself has a reputation of going down with outages, spurning spoofs like the "Service Health Crashboard".