Cisco’s video-conferencing app nears 600 million users
Webex, Cisco's video-conferencing app, since September has over 590 million users and is on its way to break the 600 million mark this month. The corona pandemic seems to have played a large part in this growth.
The number of Webex users has been growing steadily since March. Back then, the serv... Read more
Microsoft rolls out new teleconferencing experience to Team users
On Thursday, Microsoft announced that it would be releasing the new Meetings experience to a significant portion of Team users in a couple of days. Many new features will back the unique experience for desktop clients on both Mac and Windows. Below are the steps to follow to be able to join the exp... Read more
Microsoft Teams gains millions of users due to corona virus
According to Microsoft, Microsoft Teams gained up to 12 million extra users in a week because the number of homeworkers is drastically increasing due to the coronavirus. Slack, the main competitor, reported that some 7,000 additional paying customers were added in the period from February 1.
Tea... Read more
Microsoft Teams and Skype users can call each other this month
A popular requested feature within Microsoft Teams is the ability to call Skype users (also a Microsoft service). Already announced in mid-2019, but availability was not known, till now. Microsoft is now announcing that the function will appear this month.
According to Microsoft's roadmap, users... Read more
Microsoft adds healthcare functions to Office 365
Microsoft has announced a number of additions to Office 365. These are new Microsoft Teams functions for the healthcare sector, designed to facilitate virtual healthcare. Also, some patient management functions have been added to Azure.
Teams will have a new app called Bookings, which healthcare... Read more
Microsoft updates Teams in effort to reach a wider audience
Two billion people who don't spend most of their working time sitting at a computer: that's the audience Microsoft wants to reach more with Teams. A series of new additions to the app should realise that.
Microsoft's communication app receives a number of innovations, which should make communica... Read more
Microsoft’s Fluid Framework now in public preview
Microsoft has launched its Fluid Framework Technology for Microsoft 365 in public preview, enabling users with a work or school Microsoft account to test out the offering. Availability is in English and worldwide environments.
Focusing on collaboration
The Fluid Framework is a new technology ... Read more
Dropbox expands Extensions with Gmail, Teams and WhatsApp
Last year, Dropbox released Extensions to perform simple tasks for other software from Dropbox. Now, Dropbox is launching a new series of Extensions.
Extensions are basically nothing more than third party software plug-ins. With these Extensions, users can, for example, put a digital signature o... Read more
Slack claims to have 12 million active users every day
Slack now claims to have over 12 million active users every day. These users are also more involved in the tools they use than the people who use competing Microsoft Teams, says the company.
Of those 12 million users who are active every day, six
million are paying customers. These figures mean... Read more
Cisco takes on Teams and Slack with Webex
Webex has been around for years and is the standard
conferencing tool in many enterprise organizations. The focus on Cisco Webex
has been significantly less for a number of years, but the tool is completely
back on the radar. Cisco competes with parties like Slack, Teams and Hangouts
like never bef... Read more