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Dec 5, 2023   |   Angela Gamba

New Microsoft Teams app helps facilitate employee connectivity in a challenging hybrid work environment

Since Microsoft Teams came on the scene a little over five years ago, it has become so much more than the “chat-based workspace” it was originally intended to be. We now know that hybrid work would just not work without Microsoft Teams! It has become the all-encompassing container for collaborative workflow experiences, allowing us to...

Aug 14, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Microsoft moves its main employee portal to latest version of SharePoint

Editor’s note: This blog post has been updated to reflect how improvements in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 are enabling Microsoft to share news about COVID-19 and remote working with its employees in ways that were previously not possible. Moving MSW, Microsoft’s internal news and information portal, to the latest version of SharePoint in Microsoft 365...

Aug 4, 2023   |   Brian Fielder

Microsoft helps employees work securely from home using a Zero Trust strategy

When COVID-19 began its spread across the globe, Microsoft moved quickly to ensure our employees were able to work securely from home. Fortunately, we had a business continuity crisis plan in place that we used to guide our response. Our ability to respond to the crisis was greatly enhanced by how prepared Microsoft was to...

Aug 4, 2020   |   Lukas Velush

Turning to Windows Virtual Desktop to save 600 Microsoft internships in India

Divya Rawat, an intern with Microsoft India, worried that the Microsoft internship she had fought so hard for was going to be cancelled. So did Prakhar Mishra, another intern in Microsoft India’s summer class. “I was quite concerned at first,” Rawat says. “Many of my friends were having their offers revoked.” In India, COVID-19 quarantine...