Gmail and Google Drive will soon be available on Outlook.com
Some users of the Microsoft service have seen a new and convenient integration of Google services within the Outlook web interface.
Microsoft has started to use a more open approach to other companies and, after making peace with Linux, nothing can be more surprising. In the last few days, the company has started to test the integration of Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar within the Outlook.com web client, starting with some apparently highly selected accounts. The integration was shown by a user on Twitter, through a series of screenshots.
The service asks to carry out a small configuration procedure and, later, it will be possible to connect your Google account to Outlook.com, so that Google Drive documents, appointments or data saved on Google Calendar and even e-mails present on Gmail will all be available on the Microsoft service interface.
Operation with e-mails is similar to that of the Outlook mobile app, on iOS and Android, with the different accounts that can be managed within separate ” inboxes “. The news is not present on all accounts and neither has appeared in ours, a sign that the roll-out of the functionality is set with a very limited speed in order to check for any problems and youth bugs.
According to user Florian B on Twitter, it seems that it is not possible to add more than one Gmail account, and switching from the Google account to the Outlook one updates the entire page again. Integration with Google Drive, on the other hand, is compatible with documents and files of all kinds and allows you to quickly share them both on messages sent with Gmail, and on those managed with the Outlook account.
At the time of writing this piece we do not know what Microsoft’s real plans are in terms of timing, how many users have already received the new integration and when the roll-out will be expanded more widely.
