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Google, Yahoo Going After Outlook

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 05 February 2008 - 17:13 · 8 comments & 7410 views

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- Business software units of Yahoo and Google are introducing beefed-up versions of their Web-based software that compete with Microsoft Outlook, offering yet another clue why Microsoft made a $45 billion unsolicited bid for Yahoo.

While Microsoft views Yahoo as its path into the lucrative Web advertising market dominated by Google, Tuesday's software announcements by Yahoo and Google demonstrate that Microsoft also needs to fend off potential challenges to its business software franchises. Yahoo's new Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 5.0 allows users to read Microsoft Outlook e-mail alongside Yahoo Mail or Google's Gmail or Zimbra's own branded e-mail.

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(1 reply) #1 +Dakkaroth on 05 Feb 2008 - 17:58
Snap! Not GooHoo!@
#1.1 +Octol on 06 Feb 2008 - 07:18
Yaggle? Hoogle?
#2 guruparan on 05 Feb 2008 - 18:58
hmm...I hear this software for the first time (but the version is 5.0? )

NO where comparable to Outlook 2007...or atleast Outlook 2003.
#3 cork1958 on 05 Feb 2008 - 19:13
Man,
Who keeps making up these rediculous stories?
#4 ajua on 05 Feb 2008 - 19:31
this is good for users but i don't really think it poses a threat to Outlook. It is great and it does not have any competition for now. The only client that is great for reading mail is Thunderbird but it lacks much of Outlook's features.
#5 sorlag on 05 Feb 2008 - 23:08
Just... lol
#6 GreyWolfSC on 06 Feb 2008 - 01:34
Um, yeah... You're not taking my Outlook away, Google...
#7 Angel Blue01 on 06 Feb 2008 - 02:23
I just hope they update Yahoo! calendar

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