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Microsoft Viva Goals brings purpose and alignment to the employee experience

Today, we are excited to announce Microsoft Viva Goals, a new module for business goal setting and management, is now available in private preview. Viva Goals brings purpose and alignment to Viva customers—alongside culture and communications, wellbeing and engagement, growth and development, as well as knowledge and expertise.

From intelligent tools built on inclusivity to the latest in Windows—here’s what's new in Microsoft 365

This month, we’re adding new capabilities to make everyone more comfortable in meetings, feel empowered in the diverse hybrid workplace, and be able to switch devices more easily.

New experiences in Windows 11 and Windows 365 empower new ways of working

Today, we are sharing details with our customers about the future of Windows and how we are developing new experiences to enhance the way we work today, and in the future.

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Published March 28, 2017

New to Office 365 in March—co-authoring in Excel and more

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. Office 365 provides the broadest and deepest toolkit for collaboration between individuals, teams and entire organizations. Updates this month make the experience even better with co-authoring in Excel, the general availability of Microsoft Teams and more. We’ll also be announcing the

Published March 20, 2017

New reasons to make Microsoft Bookings the go-to scheduling software for your business

Last year, we released Microsoft Bookings to customers in the U.S. and Canada, introducing an easy way for small businesses to schedule and manage appointments with their customers. Today, we are pleased to announce that we’re beginning to roll out the service to Office 365 Business Premium subscribers worldwide. Based on your feedback, we are

Published March 14, 2017

Microsoft Teams rolls out to Office 365 customers worldwide

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. Today, during a global webcast from Microsoft headquarters, we announced that Microsoft Teams—the chat-based workspace in Office 365—is now generally available in 181 markets and in 19 languages. Since announcing the preview in November, more than 50,000 organizations have started using

Published February 13, 2017

TD banks on the security of the cloud with Office 365

Today’s post was written by Ron Markezich, corporate vice president for Microsoft. When customers in highly regulated industries choose the Microsoft Cloud, it’s because they feel confident that our security capabilities will meet their needs. Microsoft has made great strides in securing approvals from global financial regulatory bodies to help them meet their compliance requirements.

Published January 12, 2017

Microsoft StaffHub is here!

There are an estimated 500-million frontline staff workers around the world in retail stores, hotels, restaurants, manufacturing and other service-related industries. These employees typically don’t have their own office, desk or computer—making it hard to access and share information important for the workday. Far too often, these workers rely on manual processes and outdated tools—cumbersome

Published November 14, 2016

Introducing Outlook Customer Manager—relationships made easy for small businesses

With Office 365, we’re eager to help your small business achieve more. That’s why we are expanding the value of Office 365 to include not only essential productivity and collaboration tools, but also new services to help you run your business. The launch of Bookings earlier this year introduced a new way to schedule appointments

Published November 8, 2016

Create connected SharePoint Online team sites in seconds

In August 2016, we announced that Office 365 Groups would get full-powered SharePoint team sites. When you create a group, Office 365 gives the group a shared inbox, calendar, OneNote notebook, place for files, Planner for task management—and now a modern team site with pages, lists, libraries and team news, so the group can collaborate,

Published November 2, 2016

Introducing Microsoft Teams—the chat-based workspace in Office 365

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. Today, at an event in New York City, we announced Microsoft Teams—the new chat-based workspace in Office 365. Microsoft Teams is an entirely new experience that brings together people, conversations and content—along with the tools that teams need—so they can easily

Published July 25, 2016

Modern SharePoint lists are here—including integration with Microsoft Flow and PowerApps

Earlier this year, we unveiled a new cloud-first, mobile-first vision and roadmap for SharePoint, which included innovations that empower people, teams and organizations to intelligently discover, share and collaborate on content from anywhere and on any device. Today, we’re pleased to announce the rollout of modern SharePoint lists to SharePoint Online, along with one-click integration

Published July 20, 2016

Bring in business 24/7 with Microsoft Bookings

As a business owner, you know that scheduling appointments with customers can take a lot of your time. Sending emails back and forth, playing phone tag and reminding people to show up can clutter your day and keep you from the more important work of growing your business. To help make appointment scheduling simpler and

Published June 7, 2016

Modern document libraries in SharePoint

Last month, we unveiled our broad vision for the Future of SharePoint, and today we’re delighted to announce the that modern document libraries are now rolling out to all Office 365 commercial customers worldwide. You can learn more about how to use modern libraries in this article, “What is a document library?” What’s new Helping

Published May 5, 2016

Project Server 2016—born in the cloud

We’re pleased to announce general availability of Project Server 2016, which provides significant project and portfolio management (PPM) value to our on-premises customers. Customers who would like to evaluate the capabilities of Project Server 2016 can download trial versions at this website. Project Server 2016 value Project Server 2016 delivers value in the following areas: