Outlook For Google: Corporate Sales

Forbes.com (Jun 9 2009) Cloud Computing

1. Google has added tweaks to its e-mail for corporations that are designed to make it easier for potential customers to switch away from Microsoft's popular Outlook service. While unlikely to mean much to the search giant's bottom line anytime soon, it signals Google's resolve to target large corporations--and gives Microsoft head-on problems. The changes, available in the Gmail "premier" service that Google ( GOOG - news - people ) sells to corporations for about $50 per employee a year, make it possible to move existing calendar, folder and contact data between Outlook and Microsoft's ( MSFT - news - people ) Exchange e-mail server, and Gmail and Google's remote server farms. The service, which can look like an online version of Outlook as well, according to Google, speeds up e-mail downloads. Rather than changing any feature inside the Google service, these tweaks are meant to give customers peace of mind as they move ... (Read Full Article)

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