Jared Spataro | Author at Microsoft 365 Blog

Social entrepreneur partners with and empowers women in the Kiberia slum, to create sweaters using a Fair Trade platform.

News
February 2, 2021
2 min read

Windows 10 in cloud configuration: The cost-effective, secure, and simple solution for the new digital workforce

From remote and hybrid employees to frontline workers in the field, empowering everyone with the secure solution for cloud-optimized devices.

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News
January 29, 2021
5 min read

From breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams to AI in To Do—here’s what’s new to Microsoft 365 in January

This month, we’re announcing the general availability of highly requested features Tasks publishing and Breakout rooms in Teams along with new capabilities in Teams and Microsoft 365 services.

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News
January 25, 2021
2 min read

Introducing WorkLab: A new digital publication devoted to the future of work

Join us as we build work’s future together.

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Customer stories
December 8, 2020
5 min read

Over 200 million users rely on SharePoint as Microsoft is again recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Content Services Platforms Magic Quadrant Report

Today, we are honored that for the fourth year in a row Gartner has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in the Content Services Platforms Magic Quadrant for 2020.

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News
December 1, 2020
3 min read

Our commitment to privacy in Microsoft Productivity Score

At Microsoft, we believe that data-driven insights are crucial to empowering people and organizations to achieve more.

News
November 19, 2020
7 min read

From new apps in Microsoft Teams meetings to Endpoint DLP—here’s what’s new to Microsoft 365 in November

This month, we’re thrilled to announce that many of your top requested features – like background noise suppression in meetings – are coming to Teams and other Microsoft 365 services.

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Customer stories
November 18, 2020
4 min read

Microsoft’s Chief People Officer shares 5 tips from top wellbeing and people experts

“From wellbeing luminary Arianna Huffington to Think Like a Monk author Jay Shetty, Kathleen Hogan’s People Talk interview series features conversations with some of the most fascinating minds on the topics of people and wellbeing.

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News
October 29, 2020
4 min read

Power your digital transformation with insights from Microsoft Productivity Score

Editor’s Note: The Mechanics video embedded in this blog post has been updated to reflect some of the product changes announced on December 1, 2020.

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News
October 29, 2020
6 min read

Microsoft Productivity Score and personalized experiences—here’s what’s new to Microsoft 365 in October

As I reflect on an action-packed few weeks, I’m struck by how much work has evolved in these past months.

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Customer stories
October 28, 2020
5 min read

Microsoft Teams reaches 115 million DAU—plus, a new daily collaboration minutes metric for Microsoft 365

Today we announced that Microsoft Teams reached 115 million daily active users (DAU).

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News
October 13, 2020
4 min read

Support for Office 2010—and Office 2016 for Mac—has ended: Here’s what you need to know

Today we mark the end of support for Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac, as well as changes to the requirements for connecting to Office 365 services.

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Events
September 22, 2020
17 min read

Seven ways we’re empowering every person and every organization to thrive in a new world of work

At Ignite this week, we’re announcing many new features and capabilities to empower every person and every organization to thrive in the new world of work.

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