Of all the features Office 365 brings to the table, my favorite has to be Lync Online, hands down. Lync Chat in the Browser: Still a Sad Afterthought
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But even the mighty Redmond, the company that sculpted what corporate email has become today, still has some work to do.Īs a full time power Outlook Web App user, from an IT pro's perspective, here are the areas I think Microsoft should consider tackling before getting too sidetracked in more nuanced features. Things that I would have expected already cleaned up to bring OWA on par with Outlook client. The problem is that, for as much as Microsoft loves to toot it's own horn on all the new goodies coming to OWA, there are more than a few thorny points which irk me quite a bit. Heck, I've got numerous clients who have even refused to purchase newer Office licensing and merely leverage OWA in Office 365 like I do. Regardless of whether you agree with me on OWA's shift into primetime focus, I know many users out there rely on it as their primary email interface day to day. Microsoft's vision has been clear even before Office Web Apps became Office Online: the cloud is first priority, and desktop apps will soon transition into a supporting role.
And the fact that Outlook Web App gets new features before Outlook client now by default justifies my opinion that Microsoft is aiming for feature parity between OWA and Outlook client within the next 5-7 years, give or take a few. I love having the same experience across any machine I use as long as I have a web browser. I know very well Outlook 2013 is a fair amount more powerful, but I am a minimalist at heart. And when I launched my company FireLogic in 2010, we went full Google Apps and you guessed right: I was a browser user 100 percent of the time. I then worked for that same high school district while in college, and all staff were only given Google Apps in the browser. I grew up using Gmail in the web browser since high school. It's a great tool, but it's just not my schtick.
Yes, you heard me right: I refuse to use Outlook 2013 day to day.
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