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Google Apps Goes Global

August 1st, 2007

Google today announced a number of updates for Google Apps - several features and components previously available only to English users and administrators of Google Apps are now available in other languages, too. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new for non-English speakers:

• Google Apps Premier Edition for companies and organizations needing an uptime guarantee for email service, 10 gigabytes of email storage per user, integration APIs and multi-lingual telephone support for critical issues (support experts are available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch). Also, for a limited time, you can try Premier Edition for free for 30 days.
• Google Apps Partner Edition for ISPs and portals that want to offer Gmail and other applications to their subscribers.
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which lets Google Apps users create and collaborate in real time, right from their browsers.
• The Start Page, a central place for Google Apps users to preview their inboxes, calendars and documents, access their organizations’ essential content, and search the web.
• A more user-friendly control panel interface for Google Apps administrators.
• Mail migration tools for administrators who want to switch from a different email system (available with Premier and Education Editions only).

Google is not only adding these features to the languages Google Apps already supports; they are also rolling Google Apps out in six more languages. Here’s the full list: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian, Hungarian, UK English and US English.

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