Microsoft runs your office. Microsoft 365 Personal wants to run your family, too
With two new offerings, Microsoft 365 Personal and Microsoft 365 Family, the productivity giant can help organize your personal life as well as your work life.
Huge gains for Microsoft Teams, Slack as workers stay home to avoid coronavirus
Microsoft Teams and Slack reported significant increases in customer numbers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as employees settle into work-from-home arrangements.
Microsoft is retrofitting Teams for work in the coronavirus era
Microsoft Teams has new features focused on people who are noe working from home. These include real-time noise suppression, a raise-hand feature, and more.
Microsoft Teams will soon add push-to-talk walkie-talkie feature to smartphones
Microsoft Teams will soon add a push-to-talk feature that will provide walkie talkie functionality to smartphones and tablets. The feature will easily broadcast a message to a person or a group of people, while also preventing crosstalk or eavesdropping from outsiders compared to using analog devices.
Microsoft thinks Slack not secure enough, prohibits internal use
Microsoft has reportedly placed Slack under the "prohibited" category in an internal list of prohibited and discouraged technology. The collaboration app is a competitor to Microsoft Teams, but the main reason why the company banned employees from using it is due to security concerns.
Microsoft Teams blurs your video background, prevents national embarrassment
Users of Microsoft Teams platform can now blur out their background during video calls as the company calls out the world's favorite BBC dad to show it can be done. Available now for all Microsoft Team customers, you are only a few clicks away from hiding your background's secrets.
Is Intel eyeing Broadcom buyout to secure mobile chip relevance?
Intel may be planning a purchase of their own that will end the Broadcom/Qualcomm battle, Microsoft Teams adds Cortana to the group, we review the latest Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
Microsoft Teams will likely eventually offer a subscription-free version
The latest developer preview of Microsoft Teams shows the platform providing free access in the near future. Currently it requires Office 365.
Developers now have more ways to create great solutions with Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft announced new ways for developers to build solutions around the company's Office 365 productivity service.
Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop, lightweight OS at education-themed press event
Microsoft held a press event in New York City on Tuesday covering five specific areas in education, and we explain what you need to know.
Huawei’s Mate 9 phablet phone looks to fill Note 7 vacancies
Also today: Microsoft gets chatty with new Teams business chat app, and their sleek new Surface Studio PC may be about to get some competition.