Amazon’s Alexa added a new productivity skill to its tool set after we inadvertently discovered in mid-February.
The smart assistant—embedded in the Echo line of smart speakers, as well as many other devices—now works with Office 365 business accounts, officially. That means anyone using Office 365 for work can now get their calendar updates from their smart speaker at home or in the office, as TechCrunch first reported.
Office 365 isn’t the first calendar to work with Amazon’s Echo. From the beginning, Alexa has integrated with Google Calendar, and in mid-February Alexa added Outlook.com calendar integration. Oddly enough, we got a sneak peek of Office 365 integration back then. When we tried to use an Office 365 account with the Echo in mid-February, it worked just fine. At the time, however, Amazon said the Outlook.com skill was only designed to work with personal calendars.
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