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April 22, 2020

“SMS sign in” for Microsoft Teams* now in public preview.

Another #MicrosoftTeams feature is rolling out (ok so it’s in public preview so pretty much rolled out). This time is a feature aimed more at front line workers like retail…
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April 21, 2020

“Pop out” chat support starts rolling out in Microsoft Teams

You can now pop out a chat on #MicrosoftTeams
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April 19, 2020

How to Make your Windows10 desktop beautiful with bing!

@Microsoft has launched a beautiful new #bing wallpaper app for #Windows10
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April 17, 2020

Verizon jumps into video conferencing space by acquiring BlueJeans

Verizon jumps into video conferencing space by acquiring #BlueJeans
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April 15, 2020

Is Microsoft about to start tredding on the “big boys” as they acquire Affirmed Networks, to get foot into 5G software defined nefworks?

Microsoft has agreed to buy Affirmed Networks, a company that builds tools that enable software-defined networking capabilities, such as network function virtualisation (or NFV), across the emerging 5G infrastructure. Today,…
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April 13, 2020

4 to 9 is not 49 but its’ a leap in the right direction for #MicrosoftTeams

There’s no doubt Microsoft haven’t been busy this past few months with some may say, it’s own rapid #MicrosoftTeams feature response took to #covid_19. Whilst in preview for many at…
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April 10, 2020

Cisco and Microsoft report huge surge in Webex and Teams as use of Video Surges due to Covid-19

Cisco and Microsoft are amungst the two enterprise leading platforms that have seen a huge surge in usage numbers as organisations around the world move to online meetings to working…
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April 9, 2020

Teams hits 2.7 Billion Meeting Minutes in just OneDay

Microsoft, shared some updated highlights from their new Work Trend Index, a new research effort to understand how workers around the world interact with Microsoft’s productivity apps.. Key numbers below.…
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April 9, 2020

Does good’old Skype still have a place along side the new craze of Zoom and House Party in the wake of COVID-19

If COVID-19 had happened at the beginning of last decade rather than this one, all we’d be seeing in the digital social video world would be people using Skype instead…
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April 9, 2020

New Poly Trio C60 announced

Poly (the name for the Plantronics acquisition of Polycom last year) have just announced their new Trio C60 – the companies next generation ‘built for Teams’ conference phone that many poly…
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April 8, 2020

New Teams Meeting Experience rolling out to SurfaceHub

We heard a couple months back that big changes are coming to both SurfaceHub 1 and 2S as the SurfaceHub and Microsoft Teams product groups work to continuously improve the…
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April 2, 2020

Ensuring the best online meeting experience when working from home during COVID-19

With COVID-19 now dominating our lives and forcing most of us to work from home with lock-downs now in place across most major metropolitan cities around the globe, we (through…
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March 31, 2020

Microsoft says their Cloud Usage has jumped 775% due to COVID-19

Microsoft’s Azure Cloud and Office 365\Teams collaboration services have seen a significant, in fact colossal, spike in usage over the past week as companies globally continue to deal with an increase…
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March 25, 2020

Protect yourself from COVID-19 themed “PHISHING” attacks

Microsoft sent out warnings last week about an rise in phishing attacks and scare mongering related to the coronavirus outbreak with many cybercriminals playing on people’s fear in order to…
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March 20, 2020

Host of new features announced as Microsoft Teams Turns 3

I talked yesterday about about the tremedous growth of Teams (partly due to the impact covid-19 is having with increased working from home) but today as Teams Turns 3 a…
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March 19, 2020

Covid19: The way people work IS changing as Teams daily usage passes 44 million

Microsoft has announced that the daily users of Teams now sits as 44 million (up some 37‰ since last week and have also highlighted a number of global businesses with…
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March 19, 2020

Microsoft has made Teams free for the entire NHS

As part of a huge tech aid programme in response to COVID-19, Microsoft has made Microsoft Team available to the entire 1.5m NHS workers for free which was announced in…
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March 2, 2020

Who’s the Gartner Leaders in Analytics and BI?

Who’s the @gartner_inc leader for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.?
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March 2, 2020

My top 5 new things in Microsoft Teams for Feb 2020

1. Cross collaboration with Outlook and Teams Whilst Teams is one of the most effective and fluid ways for indivials and teams to communicate, not all conversations are suited in…
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February 26, 2020

Why (I think) you need a Yealink CP700 Teams Certified Portable Speaker (Phone)

I spend much of time with customers (new and existing) talking about and helping them envisage and recognise the business and worker benefits of adopting a true Modern Workplace. Modern…
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February 25, 2020

What Microsoft announced at the 2020 RSA Conference.

The annual RSA Conference brings together 50,000 cybersecurity professionals to connect with peers from around the world to uncover new and better ways to keep the digital world safe. Most…
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February 20, 2020

Exchange Online unlimited archiving… What you need to know.

Many don’t realise that Exchange Online has unlimited archiving. Read about the key features, common questions and what is really meant by unlimited.
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February 18, 2020

You can now Share a Teams chat to…..Outlook

What? Sharing from Teams to Outlook? Yes – you read that correctly. At Ignite in November 2019, Microsoft announced a new set of features to provide tighter integration between Microsoft…
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February 4, 2020

Major software updates coming for SurfaceHub 1 and 2 but Hub 2X upgrade is cancelled for now.

Microsoft are planning to release a “major software update” for Surface Hub 1 and Surface Hub 2 customers which will be based on the first 2020 release of Windows 10.
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January 30, 2020

Microsoft FY20Q2 results exceed Wall Street estimates.

Highlight; Revenues of $36.9 billion for the quarter, with profit at $11.6 billion, up 38% year-over-year. FY20 Q2 results summary As always theres lots to read into these and some of…
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January 20, 2020

Microsoft’s new Teams tv advert showcases how to do “modern meetings”

Microsoft has unveiled its first official TV advert for #MicrosoftTeams which aired this weekend. The slick 30-second ad aired during Sunday’s NFL playoff in the US, and will also be…
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January 15, 2020

What is “Chromium” Edge? Microsoft’s new modern browser built on Chrome

After what is almost a year-long journey of testing and feedback from the #edgeinsider community, Microsoft’s new Chromium Edge browser has taken off its’ beta badge and you can now…
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January 15, 2020

New Scheduling Experience coming to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft are about to roll out (early Feb 2020) changes that replace the existing scheduling form with a new form that retains all existing scheduling functionality but makes it more…
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January 8, 2020

Microsoft Teams and Outlook get tighter integration to ease adoption to Teams

#MicrosoftTeams and #Outlook integration was announced and Ignite last month and is getting ready to start rolling out this January. This will include three features designed to help users more…
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January 7, 2020

Need a New Year Resolution? How about improving your Productivity Score?

Need a New Year Resolution? How about improving your Productivity Score in 2020? #Microsoft365 #Collaboration #ModernWorkplace
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