In the days of dialup, accessing the Internet was a nuisance. Now, not so much. Still, users of Gmail and Google Calendar should be pleased to hear that the programs may support offline use in about six weeks’ time.
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Word of this development comes from Andrew Fogg. Since Fogg serves as the chief marketing and strategy officer at Kusiri and a senior researcher at RBS, the odds that he’s kidding or incorrect are tiny, and on Twitter, he stated, “Gears on Gmail and Calendar in approximately 6 weeks. Just had a preview at Google offices.”
Google Calendar Going Offline
The one problem – aside from potential missed deadlines and all other manner of usual hang-ups – is that Fogg continued, “Not sure if it is Google Enterprise only.”
Enterprise is probably as good as anything, though, at least in a long-term sense – it’s almost certain that Google will eventually make the upgrade more accessible. Also, from a sort of business/financial perspective, any Enterprise upgrade might count more than a consumer-level equivalent, since it’ll allow for whole companies, instead of random and far-flung individuals, to convert.
Now we get to just sit and wait for the release, which, it if happens in exactly six weeks, will occur on Jack Black’s birthday. A hat tip goes to Ionut Alex Chitu in the meantime.
