Salesforce has announced its intent to acquire Slack for an estimated $27.7 billion in a deal that would fuse two of Microsoft's biggest rivals in the business applications space.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2020
Microsoft is preparing to roll out a more stripped-down Microsoft 365 Admin Center interface designed for "very small businesses."
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 02, 2020
The ability to show user names in Microsoft 365 Productivity Score has been removed in response to concerns that it may be used to snoop on employees.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2020
Microsoft is readying a bunch of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online improvements, including a new "My Feed" Web Part and more Microsoft Graph connectors.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 30, 2020
Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams, a data platform that works with its Power Platform suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2020
Two months after acquiring Binary Tree, Quest Software is again padding its Office 365 migration portfolio with the acquisition of partner Quadrotech.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 10, 2020
Microsoft said this week that it is integrating its Project for the Web and Project Roadmap applications with its Teams chat and collaboration application.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 06, 2020
Microsoft is planning several enhancements related to the ability for users to gather usage analytics reports on searches across SharePoint Online sites.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 05, 2020
A new capability that lets Microsoft Teams users access information from the Salesforce.com customer relationship management (CRM) platform debuted this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2020
Microsoft talked up emerging Microsoft 365 capabilities as "perpetual-license" versions of Office -- namely Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac -- lost support this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2020
Microsoft partners that work with multiple customers can now begin to use Microsoft's new "All Tenants" feature in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center portal.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 07, 2020
New application server products coming from Microsoft in the second half of 2021 will be offered only on a subscription basis.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 01, 2020
Microsoft this week announced promotional deals for two of its Teams add-ons -- Audio Conferencing and Advanced Communications.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 10, 2020
Microsoft Lists, a new product based on SharePoint Lists, is now generally available through the Microsoft Teams service for both business and government users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 03, 2020
Microsoft 365 subscribers recently got access to some AI-powered capabilities -- a transcription capability and an expanded Dictate feature.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 26, 2020