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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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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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Microsoft Integrates Skype, OneDrive
Microsoft is advancing its collaboration strategy through the integration of Skype with OneDrive cloud storage service. In a blog post yesterday, the company announced that you can now log in to Skype directly at OneDrive.com.
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Uh Oh Google Hangouts, Slack Is Adding Video
It says something about the state of collaboration tech that the disruptors of a few years ago are at danger of being disrupted. For example, take Google Hangouts. A novel development when it was released by Google in 2013, Hangouts can be used to message a friend or co-worker or
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What Do You Call the Integration of Slack and Skype?
Business collaboration darling Slack has a new partner — Skype. It appears to be quite the collaborative match, with the fast-growing tool providing easy access to Microsoft’s ubiquitous communications service.
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Microsoft Supercharges Skype
Skype is a big deal for Microsoft, and it’s getting some additional attention this week with new mobile features and news of an acquisition. Microsoft announced Skype is rolling out a free, group video calling feature for Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile (the successor to Windows Phone) in the
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Unify Square Gets $4M for Skype for Business
Unify Square, a startup that helps businesses implement Skype for Business, secured another $4 million in funding in a round led by Microsoft. This brings the total of an extended Series B round that started in February to $12.2 million.
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