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Digital Workplace Newsbyte: Alfresco Bought By PE Firm, Google Targets Office 365, More News
A look back at the week in digital workplace news.
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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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5 Things to Watch for at Microsoft Build 2017
The Microsoft Build conference heads north this year, moving from its San Francisco base to kick off tomorrow in Seattle.
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Microsoft Sets a Soft Expiration Date on Standalone Office Deployments, More News
Wehn Satya Nadella stepped in as CEO of Microsoft, the Redmond, Wash.-based company set a clear vision for its future — a future in the cloud and in services. What was never made clear was where this left users of its standalone Office software.
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Microsoft Buys Intentional Software to Enhance Team Productivity
Microsoft doubled down on its productivity vision yesterday with the announcement that it would buy Intentional Software. Bellevue, Wash.-based Intentional develops productivity tools across hardware devices and is pushing the boundaries of what can be done in the productivity space.
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Microsoft Offers Deep Yammer Integration With Office
It's been four years in the making, but Microsoft seems to have finally decided where Yammer fits in the Microsoft environment. The enterprise social network has languished within the Redmond-Wash.-based software giant since its 2012 acquisition, raising repeated questions of what exactly the company planned to do with it.
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Microsoft Is Adding Office, OneDrive, Skype to Lenovo Phones
Microsoft continues to push its core productivity apps to the owners of the world's most dominant mobile devices — this time, in a deal with Lenovo, which acquired the Motorola smartphone business from Google in October 2014. Microsoft and Lenovo announced a deepening of their strategic relationship last Friday.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: Talk to Your Google Docs
Over the past two years, Google has continuously added functionality to Google Docs and the wider Google for Work suite. This week, it introduced Voice typing for Google Docs. This means users can capture ideas, compose an agenda or even write proposals without having to touch their keyboard.
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Doc Mgt Roll-up: Google Documents On Your Watch
Microsoft is trying to persuade Mac users that they aren't an afterthought. This week it added another string to the Office for Mac bow with the announcement that Mac users can become Office testers, too.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: Office 2016 Details
Microsoft confirmed this week that Office 2016 will be released Sept. 22. It also announced organizations on volume licensing schemes will be able to download Office 2016 starting Oct. 1. Knock us over with a feather. The dates of Microsoft releases are generally leaked well in advance and this one was no exception. Office
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: When Are We Getting Office 2016?
There’s a lot of noise across the Internet this week about the possible release of Office 2016 on Sept. 22. The information comes via a leak to a German-based online magazine called WinFuture.de. Microsoft has already released a preview version of Office 2016.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: Bright Outlook for ECM
For those losing sleep about the relative importance of the enterprise content management (ECM) space, some reassurance. New research from MarketsandMarkets estimates that by 2020, the ECM's value will rise to $60 billion, up from $25 billion this year, representing growth of 19.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: A Better Outlook?
There were a couple of interesting announcements around Outlook this week. First, Repstor announced the release of affinity 3.0. The affinity solution gives users direct access to content without leaving the Outlook interface, regardless of where that content is saved, online or offline.
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Doc Mgt Roll-Up: Get Your Win10 Office Mobile Apps
Along with Windows 10, Microsoft officially released Office Mobile Apps for Windows 10 this week. There were no surprises here — and that's a good thing. Microsoft has been very clear about its plans for its office apps and the role they're due to play in what Microsoft boastfully proclaims
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