Google one step closer to portal - launches online Calendar application

Posted Apr 17th 2006 3:13PM by Brian White
Filed under: Good news, Products and Services, Launches, Consumer Experience, Competitive Strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT)

No matter how Google tries to smoke-screen their product rollouts and announcements, they are becoming more and more of a direct portal competitor to their longtime enemies - Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN. Both are portals that have long had online calendars, although both calendars have languished for some time in neglect - I stopped using Yahoo! Calendar some time ago.

The new Google Calendar cements their status of taking on established players in the market already, including software competitor Microsoft Outlook. While Google Calendar does not have the email/calendar/contacts seamless integration (yet) of Microsoft Outlook, you can bet it will move in that direction to compete directly with Microsoft'sarguably most visible software product outside Windows.

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