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Tag: skype (page 2)
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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
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 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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Microsoft's Twofer: 2 Deals in 2 Days for 2 Separate Goals
Looking for a connection between its acquisition of Metanautix and Talko? Don't bother, there probably isn't one.
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Collaborating Externally with Office 365
Companies — from small operations to large enterprises — struggle with building and maintaining a well-defined and executed external collaboration strategy. But the ability to engage with customers, partners and other external parties sets businesses apart from the competition, and offers a strategic advantage.
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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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Oh Happy Day: Metro Skype is Going Away
Microsoft announced last week that it's dropping the Metro Skype app. And I couldn't be happier. If you've got Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, you probably experienced this lovely deal where you had two Skype clients — I mean two completely different versions of Skype.
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What We Learned at Microsoft's Ignite
Most of the world’s business applications depend upon a certain server whose manufacturer can no longer afford to produce it indefinitely and whose users just don’t find exciting any more.
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Keys to Ignite 2015: What's Ahead from Microsoft
We're only one-third of the way through Microsoft’s 10-day tour (appropriately numbered) promoting the future value of Windows 10 and the new model of deploying server-side applications (new for Microsoft, at least).
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Unify Wants You to Call Customers with Your Browsers
A new round of competition has ignited a field that many considered all but dead just last year. Microsoft’s extension of Skype communications into the enterprise, replacing the Lync brand, and Cisco’s formal unveiling of Spark put unified communications (UC) back in the spotlight.
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You Called? Lync Is Out, Skype for Business Is In #Conv15
The Skype communications platform officially became part of Microsoft Office today At the Convergence conference in Atlanta, the company announced the end of the Lync era with the launch of the Skype for Business technical preview. It is indeed Skype.
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MegaChat Is No Skype Killer, But It's Not MegaUpload Either
Controversial entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, the guy behind the now-shuttered MegaUpload, is at it again. He's got a new product, MegaChat, and a new boast: he claims MegaChat, an end-to-end encrypted voice and video chat service his company launched in beta yesterday, is a “Skype killer.
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