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Tag: skype
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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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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 pub
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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. The enhancements and partner solutions are aimed at making Skype for Bu
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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)&
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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 smartph
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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 vide
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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, Pan
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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
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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&nbs
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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). “Simply click the blue Cha
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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 ca
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Uh Oh Google Hangouts, Slack Is Adding Video
Relax. Your favorite real-time messaging app is not going to be displaced. Your desktop phone, though, probably will.
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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 c
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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, grou
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