In recent years, Twitter has shown the potential of their service to the world. Many people tried to replicate the same concept and built similar services for users. Google has also launched their Twitter-like service Google Buzz, but they couldn’t attract Internet users.
Now, Microsoft has come up with their own service, which can be used in large organizations. The new service is named as OfficeTalk.
Microsoft has been trying OfficeTalk in their working environment and employees are responding quite well to this service.
Here’s what Microsoft said on OfficeTalk:
Microblogging has that potential. OfficeTalk is a concept test to explore the value of microblogging in the enterprise. OfficeTalk is deployed internally at Microsoft and has seen over 10,000 visitors and hundreds of messages posted daily. We’re now making OfficeTalk available to a few customers in a small pilot test. Because this is an early-stage concept, the OfficeTalk microblogging experience itself looks very similar to other well-known services. The key difference is that the enterprise owns the data since the OfficeTalk server is hosted in the customer’s organization.
Screenshots of OfficeTalk
Of course, it is not available for public use. As they said, it will only be useful for enterprises and organizations. So, if you are running such large business, you should try out OfficeTalk.
How to apply for OfficeTalk?
Well, there is an easy way to participate in pilot test. Just go to the following link and submit a form given by Microsoft Office Labs.
Although OfficeTalk is very similar to Twitter, Microsoft has innovatively found the best use of microblogging for office users. For more information, head over to Office Labs.
What are your opinions on OfficeTalk? Will it be as successful as Twitter? Share your opinions below.
Thanks Imran.
