It has been recently announced by Microsoft that Outlook users can now access their Gmail friends within the outlook interface. According to an article published in Techcrunch, Product manager of Outlook Dharmesh Mehta has expressed that people did find the newer version of the outlook interesting but the overwhelming numbers of friends logged onto Gmail was a downer for them.
It comes as a strange step as Microsoft which is struggling with mobile app development and possibly concerned about Google’s expansion into the office paradigm in mobile has announced such a thing. In the last few weeks Microsoft has been criticized by a lot of experts and commentators for overtly negative scroogled ads that criticized Google for reading the email content of its users. MS has also created an ad which highlights the inconsistencies of Google docs. One of the major concerns that MS must be facing is the integration of quick office into the mobile version of Google docs. While MS office is undoubtedly the champ, free access to Google docs along with androids rapid expansion might pose a great challenge for MS to attract the mobile app development fraternity towards windows.
Meanwhile MS has also stated that that the chat feature will be accessible across inbox, calendar, address book and Sky Drive. To enable the chat feature, users need to simply connect to the standard OAuth system to give Microsoft access to their accounts. Despite this being great news for many Outlook lovers; the chat feature does not feature group chats as of now but would surely get the upgrade in future.
It comes as a strange step as Microsoft which is struggling with mobile app development and possibly concerned about Google’s expansion into the office paradigm in mobile has announced such a thing. In the last few weeks Microsoft has been criticized by a lot of experts and commentators for overtly negative scroogled ads that criticized Google for reading the email content of its users. MS has also created an ad which highlights the inconsistencies of Google docs. One of the major concerns that MS must be facing is the integration of quick office into the mobile version of Google docs. While MS office is undoubtedly the champ, free access to Google docs along with androids rapid expansion might pose a great challenge for MS to attract the mobile app development fraternity towards windows.
Meanwhile MS has also stated that that the chat feature will be accessible across inbox, calendar, address book and Sky Drive. To enable the chat feature, users need to simply connect to the standard OAuth system to give Microsoft access to their accounts. Despite this being great news for many Outlook lovers; the chat feature does not feature group chats as of now but would surely get the upgrade in future.
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