Google to fight Microsoft: Now you can get Gmail in Outlook

Monday, June 29, 2009

Google has recently had a deep shock in to the Microsoft dominance away from the e-mail field. With the introduction of offline Gmail, folder synchronization and full Blackberry support Google Apps has tried to create a technical knockout in the Outlook and Exchange.

Now comes as yet another uppercut. From today it is possible to seamlessly synchronize Google Apps with Microsoft Outlook. According to the official blog for Google Enterprise.

"Many business customers prefer Gmail's interface and features to products they've used before. But sometimes there are people who just love Outlook. To those we have developed Google Apps Sync with Microsoft Outlook. It allows Outlook users to connect to Google Apps and synchronize their business email, contacts and calendar. And they can always use Gmail's web interface to access their data when they are not on their work computer, "writes Eric Orth, software engineer from Google Apps team, so on the blog.

Blogs claim is made following features of the new plug-in:

E-mail, calendar and contacts all synchronized. To handle email using the plug-in Gmail offline protocol, which should be much faster than IMAP or other methods.

Automatic update of a contact's availability and global addreseliste functionality that makes it easy to schedule meetings with your colleagues, whether they use Outlook Calendar or Google Calendar.

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Outlook Web client will now support Firefox

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

When mail account should be checked on the go, this is done for many through Microsoft Outlook Web Access. But only Internet Explorer can be used if you have access to all functions.

This kind binding for Internet Explorer is not popular with Safari and Firefox users, so a wide support has remained high on the hit list of users' wishes to the new version of Exchange mail server program. And the desire is fulfilled, promises Microsoft now on the official Outlook blog. Henceforth, all major browsers being equal, when the latest version of Exchange on the street.

Developer team writes that it emphasizes the openness, Microsoft would like to have the Exchange so that it can be used by anyone, regardless of the IT setup or the mobile phone customers. As an example they mention that Microsoft ActiveSync is licensed to all interested firms, which were last used by Google, so the company could offer synchronization Between Google Apps and Windows Mobile phones.

Other innovations of the Outlook Web client refers to the team that emails will now be gathered in interviews, a feature which has been known from Google's Gmail since 2004.

Chat is also possible through network access, which also will change its name to the Outlook Live, to signal the closer integration with other Microsoft Live services.

When the new version of Exchange launches are not announced, but is expected to be ready by the end of 2009.

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