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Last week, as part of Microsoft\u2019s deep technology partnership<\/a> with the NFL, we collaborated with the league to help bring the first-ever virtual NFL Draft to life.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s draft was the most-watched<\/a> in NFL history and was a time for all of us to come together and experience the moment\u2014if only virtually\u2014as athletes across the country were brought into the NFL family.<\/p>\n

To learn more, this post<\/a> from our Microsoft Stories team offers a behind-the-scenes look at how teams at Microsoft and the NFL came together to make this year\u2019s draft possible using Microsoft Teams and Surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of a deep technology partnership with the NFL, Microsoft collaborated with the league to help bring the first-ever virtual NFL Draft to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3368823,"featured_media":234339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"content-type":[4032,4034],"product":[4036,4070],"audience":[4081,4095],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4499],"class_list":["post-234338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content-type-customer-stories","content-type-news","product-microsoft-365","product-teams","audience-enterprise","audience-media-and-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\nHow Microsoft collaborated with the NFL to bring the 2020 NFL Draft to life | Microsoft 365 Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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