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Enterprise social technology provider Moxie Software is integrating its Spaces by Moxie social software suite with the Microsoft Lync unified communications application.

  Carry on collaborating on the move with the new video, chat and contact app from Microsoft to stay in touch wherever you are on your Windows Phone 8 or iPhone device.

Microsoft started the roll-out of the updated version of Office 365 for business users earlier this week. The upgrades are present in all elements of the suite and reflect a changing work environment that is now more mobile, social and collaborative than it was when the suite was originally launched 18 months ago.

Microsoft plans to release a new version of its Lync communications platform that will be compatible with Windows 8 and Windows RT-based devices. Lync 2013 will be available as both a mobile app and desktop client.

Enterprise guinea pigs will soon be getting hold of the next big update to Microsoft's Office Suite, with the public promised beta access in the near future.

Microsoft is showering Office 365 with upgrades, wider device support and new markets, plus a new Lync app for smartphones is likely to increase its unified communications play.

On May 24, Microsoft will preview its upcoming Mango update for Windows Phone at a special event in New York, but the company is already starting to reveal details about the next version of its mobile operating system.

If cross-enterprise communications is one of the big difficulties in developing business processes and, as a result, business process management, then this week's upgrade to Global 360's (news, site) BPM suite, which now integrates Microsoft Lync, will go a long way to solving that problem.

Compliance and security are in the spotlight this week with McAfee buying database security vendor Sentrigo and news that healthcare compliance budgets are growing. There is also a new beta program to test compliance products for Microsoft’s Lync, while new research shows the global security budget rising to almost US$28 billion.

There’s been a lot of Microsoft action this week. MS finally released Lync, Verizon’s IP mobility and networking components now integrate with MS online services and AvePoint migrates your content into SharePoint online.

Microsoft (news, site) has announced the beta version of its web-based Office services, including SharePoint, Exchange and Lync (formerly Communications Server), as well as a subscription version of Office that it hopes will bolster Office Web Apps.

Recently, the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), an organization based in the UK that represents digital publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content, announced the recipients of its Digital Publishing Awards for 2010.