[NEW] Microsoft has created its own IFTTT tool called Flow

Microsoft's Flow is designed to connect services like Twitter, Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Office 365. Microsoft lists a number of example "flows" (recipes), including the ability to generate SMS alerts from emails, pull tweets into Excel, or get Slack notifications when a file is uploaded to a Dropbox folder. You can even create flows to copy files from OneDrive for Business to SharePoint.

Flow went live yesterday as a preview, but Microsoft has pulled it offline so it clearly wasn't ready to go public just yet. Microsoft has more than 35 services enabled in the Flow preview, and the software maker is planning to add more each week. We've reached out to Microsoft for comment on when Flow will go public again, and we'll update you accordingly.