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Google introduces offline gmail

(via millertime83)

This is huge, actually.

Offline cached e-mail tends to be a critical function for business e-mail deployments (see: last Friday, Monday and Tuesday at work for me). Once the kinks are worked out of this feature, Gmail will be a product that is very competitive with Outlook/Exchange e-mail for 90-95% of corporate users (e.g. ones that require no 3rd-party product integration and don’t rely on public folders).

My guess is that Google is almost ready to shake the Beta tag off of Gmail and Google Docs, then start selling them in a huge way into corporate environments as a cloud-based, cross-platform alternative to MS Exchange and Office. If they can get this done by the end of Q3, they will probably have beaten the media surge for Windows 7, and gained themselves a significant competitive advantage over Microsoft going into the next version cycle.

Scott Charles just got a woody.