Everyone was up in arms when Google rejiggered its privacy policies to allow its various services to talk to each other, but now Microsoft’s taking a page from the same playbook to bring more intelligence to its various Office products—and allow third-party developers to tap into your data to create seamless experiences inside of Office products.
“We are moving from Office for us, to Office with others,” CEO Satya Nadella declared during Microsoft’s Build keynote on Wednesday.
Now, third-party plugins are nothing new to Office—witness the (somewhat neglected and barren) Office app store. But Microsoft’s rolling out a new unified API that allows third-party apps to pull data from all the various Microsoft services you use, from Calendar to messages. That should make it much easier for the company to create seamless, helpful experiences for end users.
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