Microsoft Testing Twitter-Like Service for Enterprises

Posted 03/23/2010 at 5:35am | by Paul Lilly

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It looks like Google isn't the only one wanting to ride the gravy social computing gravy train a la Twitter (though Twitter is still looking for ways to cash in on its microblogging service). Microsoft has big plans too, and it starts with OfficeTalk.

According to what we can glean from Microsoft's Office Labs blog, OfficeTalk is basically a social networking tool somewhat similar to Twitter, but intended for the enterprise market.

"[OfficeTalk] appiles the base capabilities of microblogging to a business environment, enabling employees to post their thoughts, activities, and potentially valuable information to anyone who might be interested," Microsoft wrote. "Like any good researcher, we have tested this concept on ourselves first and insights surfaced quickly."

As it currently stands, Microsoft makes it clear that OfficeTalk isn't a product, but a research project focused on learning how people might use social networking tools at work. The next step, Microsoft says, is to take the OfficeTalk concept, along with other social networking experiments, outside of Redmond's walls and into the hands of a few customers.

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