In June 2009, Google moved to mimic the look and feel of Microsoft Outlook, which some 500 million business workers are comfortable with (or just forced to use by their employers). This effort took shape in the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook plug-in, which lets these users access their Google Apps e-mail, contacts and calendars through Outlook. The idea was to let company workers who switch to Google Apps access their information via the familiar Outlook interface,