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

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.