Productivity & Apps

Explore Salesforce's strategic approach with recent acquisitions, such as Slack, and the implications this has on Microsoft Teams.

Augmented reality has largely enjoyed cover from critique by being taken as a benign gaming technology. But recent developments suggest we need to get serious about it.

Windows 95 was the “next generation” OS from Microsoft: redesigned UI, long file names support, 32-bit apps and many other changes. Some…

Microsoft's Viva employee experience platform may help solve the problem with slow growth in business productivity.

Former Nokia and Apple camera expert Ari Partinen has joined the Microsoft Surface team in the role of Director of Imaging.

Microsoft Teams gets new presentation tools, the ability to host view-only broadcasts with up to 20,000 attendees, and an updated mobile app.

Microsoft & Cisco lead in Gardner's Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications. Slack's position?

CEO Satya Nadella revealed five company practices in his 2019 shareholder letter that are creating Microsoft’s future workplace. These practices are useful to Microsoft, and you can use them to evaluate the integrity, trustworthiness, and relevance of your company – and all companies.

Chanty explores the interesting history behind Slack and Microsoft Teams, and how they compare on pricing, integrations and more.

President Brad Smith says the company was on "the wrong side of history" at the start of the century

Sharepoint was clunky and cumbersome, a bit like trying to ride a ten-speed bike with winter boots on. The just-released Microsoft Viva is definitely not.

This is a new take on the old intranet.

What’s the one essential you’d go back home for if forgotten? Maybe it’s your mask.

Microsoft said it has learned a lot from the open source realm, adding that it is now the "accepted model" for cross-company collaboration.

Microsoft launched significant healthcare products in the last year and deepened existing partnerships to support healthcare providers during the pandemic.

According to Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, Teams is on its way to becoming a digital platform as significant as the internet browser, or a computer operating system.

It's unclear what prompted Microsoft to tie bonuses to integrity, but it generally tries to establish itself as a leader in tech-industry ethics.

There’s a brand new version of Windows on the way, and it’s set to change how we interact with our PCs—and even change our ideas about what a PC actually

Experts told us what they expect 2021 holds for Microsoft, including a major acquisition and a "big year" for Surface devices.

Microsoft's 'Project Latte' is about bringing Android apps to the Microsoft Store and Windows 10. But why is Microsoft doing this? There are several theories.

Microsoft’s New Surface Pro X: An Imperfect Taste of the Future It’s a great all-day computer as long as it natively runs the apps you want to use When Microsoft debuted the Surface Pro X in late …

Microsoft has a roster of heavy-hitters in the developer world among its ranks, including the creator of programming languages C# and TypeScript.

With the launch of the M1 processor, Apple has broken open the ARM-powered market for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. And one of the biggest winners will be Microsoft.

The fascinating transition in Microsoft from Steve Ballmer's high-octane leadership style to Satya Nadella's partnership-centred approach

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