Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Outlook 2003 Adds SMS Support
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 04:00 PM
"A Swedish mobile messaging company's software will be offered for integration into Microsoft Office 2003, allowing users to send SMS (Short Message Service) messages from Microsoft Outlook.
The SMS Executive product from Stockholm-based General Wireless AB will be included in Microsoft Office Marketplace, a listing of products and services that work with or complement Microsoft Office. General Wireless and Microsoft will work together on the offering in Sweden first, but the agreement is global and can be extended to other markets, according to a General Wireless statement released Monday."
Nice! Anything that I use that gets integrated into Outlook is good news for me. I've made this simpler for myself and my wife by creating mobile@ aliases on our personal domains that forward to our cell SMS addresses, so it's pretty easy for me as is, but I'll be interested to see how Microsoft integrates this functionality. Guess I'd better install that Outlook 2003 beta that arrived yesterday. :wink: I still don't use SMS that much unfortunately, though I want to use it more. I need to go to T9 boot camp!
The SMS Executive product from Stockholm-based General Wireless AB will be included in Microsoft Office Marketplace, a listing of products and services that work with or complement Microsoft Office. General Wireless and Microsoft will work together on the offering in Sweden first, but the agreement is global and can be extended to other markets, according to a General Wireless statement released Monday."
Nice! Anything that I use that gets integrated into Outlook is good news for me. I've made this simpler for myself and my wife by creating mobile@ aliases on our personal domains that forward to our cell SMS addresses, so it's pretty easy for me as is, but I'll be interested to see how Microsoft integrates this functionality. Guess I'd better install that Outlook 2003 beta that arrived yesterday. :wink: I still don't use SMS that much unfortunately, though I want to use it more. I need to go to T9 boot camp!
