{"id":7911,"date":"2020-05-21T17:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldflow.net\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2020-05-21T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T17:48:19","slug":"did-microsoft-just-win-back-the-email-client-for-business-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betaworldflownet.local\/did-microsoft-just-win-back-the-email-client-for-business-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Microsoft just win the \u201cemail client for business\u201d war ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Microsoft may have won the email client for business users once and for all. In recent releases of various versions of Outlook, on PC, Web, IOS (and I assume Android) they have quietly allowed the email client to directly connect to LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
(Mac is behind, still but it will be there no doubt. I am using Web Outlook on my Mac now).<\/p>\n
The ability to connect to LinkedIn is missing from almost everything, since LinkedIn, pre even a hint of a Microsoft acquisition, removed all the API\u2019s to access the platform.<\/p>\n
So all the online CRM\u2019s and other email clients, openly state that they can\u2019t connect to LinkedIn. In fact only with a very clunky hidden export, of a number of different files, that you join back together, can you loosely import your contacts from LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
Now Outlook, without much noise that I noticed, has the ability to do what no one else can. Which brings us back to the point, they may have cleaned up the competition here, unless LinkedIn re-opens all it’s API’s. Certainly won’t be quick to do so without Government pressures, or payments to it’s owners.<\/p>\n
Not that there a is much of a war for the large corporate email client. A lot of large businesses use Outlook, in various versions, many very old. With Connect Email+ we send a lot of emails on behalf of our clients, and we see all the variations.<\/p>\n
Smaller firms though have crept onto Gmail, and MacMail albeit connected to Office365 (me), and some more organised clients than Outlook. And on IOS \/ Android devices we see a lot more native use. In lockdown though the numbers of mobile Outlook, particularly\u00a0IOS Outlook users has shot up, as staff are allowed, with inTune supervision to access their corporate emails on their phones.<\/p>\n