Microsoft privately testing a 'Twitter for business' service
Microsoft is continuing to look into ways to make social computing services part of business users’ lives with a new pilot program for something called “OfficeTalk.”
Microsoft mentioned OfficeTalk in a March 19 posting on the Office Labs blog, calling it a vehicle that “applies 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.”
Office Labs officials described OfficeTalk as a research project, with no clear or definite commercialization path. (It is one of the team’s “Concept Tests,” like the recently introduced Ribbon Hero training game, Canvas for OneNote add-on, and pptPlex zoomable canvas.) Officials said OfficeTalk was “one of the most popular internal concept tests to date.”
