Wednesday was a good day for Google’s enterprise software business as competitor Microsoft announced plans to incorporate Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn updates within its flagship enterprise product, Outlook.
The move could get Outlook banned in offices around the world by buttoned-down IT folks bound by corporate policy, who now have reason turn their school-marm firewall rules on Microsoft Outlook. And those who love their e-mail pure of distracting Web 2.0 noise might be tempted to turn to Gmail’s enterprise edition — which as yet has no Buzz inside.
Microsoft dominates the market for enterprise office productivity tools, but has come under increasing pressure from online innovators like Google and Zoho that offer businesses decent alternatives at significant discounts.
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