 Google's Dave Girouard
Wave will roll out of invite only status in 2010
Google
is working hard to fight Microsoft on several fronts. Google is the
clear leader the search market in America, but Microsoft is working
hard to gain on Google in search with Bing. At the same time, Google
is putting pressure on Microsoft in the smartphone market with the
popular Android OS and Google is also competing against Microsoft in
productivity software with its Google Apps.
EWeek reports
that 2010 will be a big year for Google and its cloud offerings like
Google Apps, Google Wave, and Google Voice. Google's Enterprise
president Dave Girouard has stated that the search giant will add
many features to Google Apps this year and roll Google Voice out for
business users. Google will reportedly add as many as 200 new
features to Google Apps in 2010.
Right now Google boasts more
than 2 million business users for its Google apps, Gmail, and other
software. Girouard told eWeek,
"There will be a steady stream of new capabilities brought to
the cloud [in 2010]."
One of the biggest launches form
Google in 2010 will be the roll out of Google
Voice to businesses. GV has over 1.4 million users in America
right now that get calls form mobile, home, and business numbers to
one device. The app lacks some features currently that users want to
see, such as VoIP. However, Google plans to add
VoIP to Google Voice and will use technology purchased with
the firm Gizmo5 to add the functionality.
Google Voice for
Businesses will let Google fight IBM and Microsoft in the unified
communications and collaboration environment. Girouard also says that
new mobile technologies coming this year from Google will help drive
adoption of Google Apps and other cloud offerings from Google. He
specifically cites the Chrome OS and web browser.
Girouard
adds, "We are really focusing on the capability to deliver a
better and better experience to end users across all applications on
mobile devices and also through our Chrome browser and eventually
Chrome PS. We're not just a few apps here; we're working on the
entire stack."
Google will also unveil its Wave
collaboration environment to all users and companies that
want to use it this year. Currently, Wave is only available by invite
and has about a million users. Wave lets users do several things
including IM, collaborating on documents, and it also supports social
networking.
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