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Microsoft Unveils Zoom Competitor, Gartner Predicts More Remote Work and Other News
This week, Microsoft releases a Skype-based alternative to Zoom, Gartner predicts more remote working will be permanent and Edison unveils new email service.
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5 Tips for a Smooth Transition From Skype to Microsoft Teams
To reduce redundancy of features and avoid confusion, Microsoft will soon decommission Skype for Business within Office 365.
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How Skype’s 2017 Redesign Failed the User
Microsoft is dialing back a 2017 Skype redesign which flopped with users. The reason? It delivered what it thought people wanted, not what they really wanted.
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What Intelligent Voice Calling Adds to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has added voice calling to Teams. Its a small addtion in a bigger plan
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How Skype in Teams Aims to Streamline Collaboration Efforts
Microsoft announced it would phase out Skype for Business and roll the functionality into Teams during its Ignite conference this September. At the time Microsoft indicated it would publish a roadmap outlining how the process of rolling the two together would unfold.
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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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Microsoft Adds New Features to Skype for Business
Microsoft is beefing up Skype for Business in Office 365 with advanced call features, meeting room solutions and call analytics.
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Why Is Microsoft Closing Its Skype London Office?
Microsoft is closing its Skype office in London — a move that is expected to make some 220 people redundant and leave many more wondering "Why?" The Financial Times (subscription required) first reported that Microsoft was cutting back operations in the UK.
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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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Cisco Meeting Server Brings Skype for Business into Video Rooms
When San Jose, Calif-based Cisco closed on its $700 million acquisition of London-based video infrastructure and collaboration software vendor Acano in January, it stated it wanted to "drive video everywhere.
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Panopto Makes Skype Video Searchable, Shareable
Skype for Business continues to attract a lot of love from third-party vendors — including Seattle-based Panopto. With this week's upgrade of its video content management platform, Panopto included Skype for Business integration.
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Microsoft Skype Bots Hit the Enterprise in Windows 10
Microsoft followed up last week's anniversary of the Windows 10 launch with the release this week of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, complete with a new Skype Preview Windows application built specifically for the launch.
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Microsoft Gives Skype More Muscle
Microsoft spent $8.5 billion to acquire Skype back in 2011. Since then, it's done a lot of work under the hood, molding it into something that fitted its own enterprise productivity ambitions and creating Skype for Business — arguably the most significant related development in the past five years.
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Microsoft Adds Real-Time Chat to Office Online
Microsoft is integrating Skype-enabled chat capabilities into Office Online, the browser-based version of its productivity tools (Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word).
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