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Microsoft Increases Team Size to Attract Enterprises
Microsoft announced a significant upgrade to its Teams collaboration app this week, bumping up the number of people allowed in a single Team from 999 to 2500. The company indicated it might further increase this limit in the future. A Quiet Increase to Teams' Limits When Teams launched last November
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Microsoft's Windows 10 Accused of Breaching Dutch Data Privacy Laws
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) has accused Microsoft of breaching Dutch law by harvesting data of those who use its Windows 10 operating system. In a statement issued Oct. 13th, the DPA stated Redmond, Wash.
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Box Graph Connects Content and People and Other News
San Francisco-based Box concluded its annual conference yesterday, following three days of upgrade announcements and significant releases. One of those releases — Skills — brought artificial intelligence (AI) into the Box platform. The other notable addition is the introduction of Box Graph.
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Gartner Ditches ECM, Names 3 Content Services Platform Leaders
In last year's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Gartner analysts and authors Karen A.
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Slack Partners With Oracle to Extend Enterprise Reach, More News
Slack continued its efforts this week to gain traction in the enterprise, announcing a new partnership with Redwood City, Calif.-based Oracle. The partnership links Slack with Oracle’s Intelligent Bot Platform to give both technical and nontechnical users of the Oracle platform access to bots to that can be used in
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Microsoft’s Ecommerce Path Takes Another Turn
Microsoft has had a long and complicated relationship with ecommerce in general and with its ecommerce vendor, Digital River, in particular. Microsoft's ecommerce history started with its 1996 acquisition of Commerce Server from eShop, a company founded by Pierre Omidyar, who went on to create eBay.
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Mark Your Calendars: Microsoft Announces Mid-2018 SharePoint 2019 Release
On day two of Ignite, Microsoft announced plans to release preview versions of Office 2019 and SharePoint Server 2019 by 2018. According to Jared Spataro, general manager for Microsoft Office, the preview edition of SharePoint Server 2019 will be out by the middle of the year.
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Is Microsoft Teams the 'Portal' We've Been Looking For?
On day one of Microsoft Ignite, the company announced its Teams collaboration product would become the “hero client” for all communications functionality in Office 365 going forward. Teams will subsume the functionality of Skype for Business for Office 365 users, bringing voice, video calling and even plain old telephone services
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Satya Nadella Shares Vision of AI-Powered Digital Transformation at MSIgnite
Satya Nadella put all of the product announcements, roadmaps, tech trends and more into perspective during his keynote speech at Microsoft’s Ignite conference taking place Sept. 25 to 29 in Orlando, Fla.
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Watch For These 5 Announcements at Microsoft Ignite
Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference opened this morning in Orlando, Fla., bringing together customers, partners and MVPs. Over 700 sessions, multiple product roadmaps and product releases will fill the next five days.
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Digital Workplace Development Fueled by the Cloud
Two themes emerged on the first day of the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit in London. First, enterprises are still unclear what a digital workplace means. Second, digital workplaces have more to do with the people working in them than the technology they use.
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SharePoint 2016 Finally Gets SharePoint Framework Support
One of the big reasons Microsoft pushed SharePoint Framework into general availability in February was to attract more developer talent into the SharePoint ecosystem. Yesterday, the Redmond, Wash.-based company announced the release of SharePoint Feature Pack 2 (FP2), which finally gives Framework support to users of SharePoint 2016.
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Why Rackspace's Datapipe Buy Will Disrupt the Cloud Market
Managed cloud services provider Rackspace announced its plans to buy former competitor Datapipe earlier this week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but San Antonio, Texas-based Rackspace noted it was "the biggest" in the company's history.
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Amdocs Smartbot Aims to Handle Customer Service and Close the Deal
Amdocs has rolled out an intelligent bot called Smartbot for its digital service provider customers. Powered by aia, Amdocs’ intelligence platform, and Microsoft Cognitive Services, Smartbot is able to engage customers in conversation and perhaps more significantly, can also close transactions for the customers.
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