Significantly increase the value and competitiveness based on its Web mail service Google allows an experimental version of the ability to read, write, and the search for Gmail messages, even if n is not connected to the network.
Google wants to allow users access to their Gmail service is not connected to the network.
Google wants to allow users access to their Gmail service is not connected to the network.
Google believes most religious cloud computing, the idea that applications and data live over the Internet on a PC. But there are times when the network is not accessible, and, in general, web applications like Google Mail today, the activities in these circumstances.
Offline circumventing the problem, the classic example of a driven executive travel by air. And offline access to Gmail opens a new chapter to the ambitions of Google, the business customer service like Google Apps, Google Mail is a component.
'It is a characteristic that we have heard loud and clear, the company wants, "said Todd Jackson, Gmail product manager.
You try to connect to-business clients, this means, in general, they are far in front of the position of messaging products for Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook software for PCs. Google and Microsoft started in separate areas, but increasingly competitive, close competitors, each corresponding to a strong cash generation of companies, which can be used to subsidize the incursions into other markets.
And there's more. More customers of Google Apps offline "soon" to access Google Calendar, but not in principle the possibility of new entrants. If the organization of an administrator can change the "New" option, any person in this organization will have access to the calendar, "said Google.
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New features in Gmail, to help ensure that more imperative for companies, but for many, a bigger problem is that Google Mail, sports day, said Gartner analyst David Smith.
"This is one of the biggest obstacles for businesses," said Smith. "They are difficult to find all the companies that decide to go into production, with all that requires a provider of beta, no matter how it is." Google promises customers 99.9% uptime with a service level agreement for Google Apps, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs.
Cloud vs PC
And Microsoft, which are not on a Dime, is not about a future that is based solely on the PC desktop. It already has a product, Office Live Workspace, users and the view - but not edit - online office documents, and the next version of Office in a browser.
Philosophically, though it retains a commitment from Microsoft to your computer, while Google wants as quickly as possible for web-based applications.
"We believe that the browser is the ideal platform for the use of all types of applications. This is Google puts its commitment," said Jackson. "But people are governed by the speed and connectivity of the Internet. We want to fill the gaps."
Google already has open source technology called Gears that avoids this cloud days Computing Web data on the PC, and Google Mail, can help millions more people to install Gears coaxial cables. This could allow chicken to solve the problem of eggs, which currently is not useful for most programmers to build Web applications in Gears support.
Greater Gears help assist other cloud computing companies, including Zoho, already have access to its Web-based e-mail.
It is not that offline Gmail was totally impossible. We can program like Outlook or Thunderbird to read and write e-mail, for example. Gmail is offline, but does not mean that people must learn a new interface.
Gmail has been disconnected during the debate for months, if Jackson does not have specific parts of exactly how long.
How can Gmail offline?
"We wanted the experience almost identical to the experience you get when you're online," said Jackson.
Gmail offline stores a copy in the Inbox of a user on a PC. Most people have to install it, a process led by Google, but it is in the browser Google Chrome.
After Gears is installed and access is turned off, the software automatically detects whether a person, the network operates. If the network is good, Gmail as usual. If it is bad, it is offline, do not send messages and finding news, if the connection is restored.
And if the Web is vertrackt, a person, intermediate objectives "blurred connection, waiting, for example, on a personal, direct recording to disk and then sends it into reality as soon as possible. Google-position, which we also for coffee and neighbors, poaching a weak signal of the wireless network, but I think that what the "Tech-mode."
If this option is activated, it starts to download offline Gmail, in the background, a copy of a user archives for PC users. But the software has more than 10,000 e-mail may not be so difficult for archiving.
Gmail will automatically update the local cache with new messages, and more recently to read articles and news related to a special label, a click on the person, "said Jackson.
Perfectible
Not all, but.
A large piece missing is the ability to add attachments to new messages, if existing structures are compatible with the new.
Another is the Contacts tab, switch, management of e-mail or adding new lists of addresses, while you are offline. Auto-complete works, even if you do not need to remember that e-mail.
English Gmail user can access offline Google gradually add capacity in the next couple of days, "said Andy Palay Gmail engineer in a blog. "Offline Gmail is still an experimental basis in the first place, it would not be surprised if you click on some of the nuances that are not yet fully eliminated are still working," Palay said.
What are the problems?
"We have problems with the local cache increasingly out of sync. Devi browser, and you back," said Jackson. "In rare cases, it must be thoroughly rinsed, we ask you to disable and re-activate the function."
But some of these problems, said: 'It is under review for a moment on all 20,000 of Google, and is now some evidence. "
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